Downcast - The World He Promised to Katherine Lyrics

Katherine hid behind the bed. It didn't take long to find her there. Your mother's not going to live through what I do to you. Hands around her ankles, he dragged her into view. Two working hands around her throat, looking at the wall as she choked. It's quick. It's quick. Her brother didn't know what happened when he took him in the car. Spiderman pillow and a gun, the boy's pillow and a gun. Your mother's not going to live through what I do to you. It's quick, so quick. I don't know why the Haitian women came, but when the boxes rolled in they howled and wailed and cried. Pictures on the altar in gold plastic frames. Mother shrunk and void. Prayers from the corner of the room. Ten years and a minute. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care that's he's dead too. He was no father. He was no father. It took him two days to die. Just steal and run. I don't fucking care. A vigil for a murder. A vigil for Katherine.

Posted Oct. 7, 2002 at 2:00 AM. BOSTON. The man suspected of killing his girlfriend's teenage daughter and 5-year-old son before turning the gun on himself left a note behind, but it was not one of remorse, a prosecutor said. J. Alvarez, 39, a native of Columbia, died at Massachusetts General Hospital about 5:45 p.m. Sunday, a hospital spokeswoman said. He had been on life support since turning the gun on himself Saturday. Police arrived at Clifton Street in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood at about 3:25 p.m. Saturday, where they found Katherine H., 13, dead in the apartment Alvarez shared with his girlfriend and the two children. A short time later, police were called to Moreland Street in Somerville, where they found Alvarez and young Elia M. both critically injured with gunshot wounds to the head. Alvarez shot his son in the back seat of a minivan, muffling the sound with a pillow, before getting behind the wheel and shooting himself, said a Somerville police spokesman. ''Our experience with domestic violence tells us that violence is the motive,'' the prosecutor said. ''When individuals are feeling that they're angry, violence is the medium they use to express anger. And, unfortunately, it doesn't go beyond that.'' Alvarez's estranged wife who had two other children with him, had taken out a restraining order against him last December, law enforcement authorities said.