Dear Avy, I think of you only   Were you waiting, were you dead on the vine?   You were my Avery, when you needed saving   I could just grab you by the nape of your neck   There are times life will rattle your bones   It will bend your limbs   But you're still far and away the boy you've ever been   So you bend back and shake at the frame   The frame you made, but don't you shake alone   Please Avery, come home      Headstrong, you and your long arms    Listing lazily on the cusp of your teens   But you were my Avery, when you needed saving   I could just grab you by the nape of your neck   There are times life will rattle your bones   It will bend your limbs   You're still far and away the boy you've ever been   So you bend back and shake at the frame   The frame you made, but don't you shake alone   Please Avery, come home   Please Avery, come home      Bring out your weeping weeds   Bring out your ten-pint bowlers   Bring out your your weeping weeds   We're burying Avy   We're burying Avy      Pull back the old pine boughs   Loosen his legs uncrooked   Pull back the old pine boughs   For burying Avy   For burying Avy      His mother wept no tears   His brother grew unruly   His mother wept no tears   As burying Avy   As burying Avy      They say he fell in with thieves   Say his life grew ugly   Say he fell in with thieves   Say burying Avy      So bring out your weeping weeds   Bring out your ten-pint bowlers   Bring out your your weeping weeds   We're burying Avy   We're burying Avy