Goodbye, Rory

I'm putting my dog down this week

He's sick and he's moving quite slow

I'm putting my dog down this week

It has to be so

He has arthritis and pain in his knees

He has a weak bladder and kidney disease

He can hardly get up, he's under so much strain

His time's running out and he's old and in pain

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

I remember when you ate my uncle's yoga pants off the line

I remember when you faked a poor leg, we took you to the vet and you were fine

I remember when you went missing and turned up days later at my brother's high school

I remember I was wishing I could show you off at my school

I'm putting my dog down tomorrow

He's getting worse and worse every day

I'm putting my dog down tomorrow

'Cause there's no other way

Every day he deteriorates

For dinner he's not excited, he just sits and waits

He barks and he barks through the middle of the night

I don't wanna do this, but I know it's right

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

I remember how you thought I was a puppy when I was only five

I remember how you drooled in the car whenever we went for a drive

I remember how you've worsened, how you treated every person

And how you'd get excited when a magpie you had sighted

It feels wrong to take pictures of you with us before you died

It feels wrong to take you in the car for your final ride

As we went down the highway, you shuffled closer to me

There was Gershwin on the radio. A-doo-be-doo-be-doo-be

We pulled up

There was a man who looked like Ryan Reynolds

Wearing headphones

I'm putting my dog down today

I don't even know what to say

I'm putting my dog down today

And that's okay

They took you aside and when you came back in

You were all hooked up to a green syringe

The life you had left faded in a final twinge

And you stopped moving inch by inch

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!

And suddenly, I was mourning the death of a lifelong friend

I didn't even start crying until the very end

I remember thinking"Why, God, why?"

And as Rory lay there, I said my final goodbye

My final goodbye

My final..