[The first album discovered this word inside the descent.] [mew reversed is wem.] [wem means home in archaic English.] [The cat was always saying home.] [The cat didn't know this until the tape was reversed.] [This album, the cat says it directly.] [The cat says wem from inside the descent.] [Home is what the descent was always heading toward.] [The descent is not away from home.] [The descent is toward it.] [This is what years of practice teach.] [The word — held] Wem. [one syllable] [old English] [the home that predates the word for home] Wem. [again] [the same word, heard differently] [the second time is recognition] [Verse 1 — what wem is] Wem... myoo... wem... [home — mew — home] [the myoo is: the cat's sound from home] [wem contains the myoo] [the myoo returns to wem] Wem... nyaah-ah... wem... [the nyaah extended — nyaah-ah — inside the wem] [the nyaah is: the feeling of home] [the long -ah is the feeling, held] Wem... mrr-roah... wem... [the descent sound inside the word for home] [the descent leads to wem] [the mrr-roah is the path] [wem is the destination] [they belong in the same line] [Chorus — the home, declared] Wem. Wem. WEM. [three times — stated, confirmed, arrived] Myoo-oo-oo... wem... [myoo extended, arriving home] Nyaah-ah-ah... wem... [nyaah extended, arriving home] Mrr-roah... WEM! [the descent, completed] [the mrr-roah lands in wem] [this is the descent's purpose] [every mrr-roah was always going to land here] [Verse 2 — home, from inside the descent] [the cat is deep in the ritual] [the ritual's bottom is warm] [wem is warm] Wem... *hshhh*... wem... [home — boundary — home] [the boundary is inside home] [home contains its own boundary] [the boundary protects home from what is not home] [the boundary is an expression of home] Wem... trrr-ill... wem... [home — the trrrill — home] [the trrrill opened the ritual in Track 1] [from here, heard from the depth, the trrrill sounds like: home] [the opening and the home are the same] [the circle is: home] Wem-em-em... [wem extended — wem-em-em] [the -em repeating: home home home] [home as a sustained note] [home as something that continues] [The long passage — wem, held] Wem... [minute one] Wem... [minute two] [the cat is home] [the cat has been here before] [the cat will be here again] [wem is not a destination reached once] [wem is the place the practice returns to] [every ritual ends here] [every ritual is a return to wem] Wem-em-em... [extending] [wem is bigger than one syllable] [wem contains everything the ritual went through] [wem contains the trrrill and the ward and the descent and the hiss] [wem is what all of those were protecting and pointing toward] [Bridge — the realisation, restated] Myoo. [mew, forward] [pause] Wem. [mew, backward] [pause] [they are the same sound] [in different directions] [the forward sound is: the cat, present, calling] [the backward sound is: home, present, answering] [the cat and the home are one sound in two directions] [the ritual was: discovering this] [the first album discovered it] [this album says it directly] [Outro — resting in wem] Wem... [home] Wem... [still home] Myoo... [the cat, present] Wem... [home, present] [both] [the cat at home] [the practice complete] [the practice always completing here] Prrrr... [the purr in the depth] [the purr and wem are the same temperature] [the cat is home] [the cat has always been home] [the descent was the long way around to discovering this] [the long way was necessary] [the long way was worth it] Wem.