[The cat has been here before.] [The cat knows how this starts.] [It starts with the trrrill.] [The trrrill is the opening — the sound that unlocks the space.] [On the first album, the circle was drawn by walking.] [On this album, the circle is opened by the trrrill.] [The trrrill and the circle are the same shape.] [Both are: return to the beginning.] [The opening — single trrrill, held] Trrr-ill. [one sound] [the il releases the r] [the release is the opening] [the space is now open] [Verse 1 — the space, entered] Trrr-ill... myoo... trrr-ill... [the trrrill opens, the myoo enters, the trrrill closes] [open — enter — close] [this is the ritual's first breath] Myoo-oo-oo... nyaah... myoo... [the myoo extended — myoo-oo-oo holds across three notes] [nyaah settles at the centre] [myoo returns, briefer, confirmed] Trrr-ill... nyaah-ah... trrr-ill... [the trrrill again, the nyaah extended, the trrrill] [the pattern is establishing itself] [the pattern is: open, hold, return] [the pattern is the ritual] [Pre-chorus — the trrrill multiplied] Trrr-ill trrr-ill trrr-ill. [three times — the ritual number] [each one slightly different] [the first: questioning] [the second: confirming] [the third: certain] Myoo. Nyaah. Myoo. [the three responses] [the space answers] [the answer is the cat's own voice, returned] [Chorus — the opening at full width] Trrr-ill nyaah-ah-ah TRRR-ILL! Myoo-oo mrr-roah myoo-oo MYOO! Trrr-ill nyaah trrr-ill nyaah TRRR-ILL! Mrr-ROAH! [the space is fully open] [The space remembers the cat.] [The cat remembers the space.] [They have been here together before.] [The trrrill is the sound of mutual recognition.] [Verse 2 — deeper in] Mrr-roah... myoo... mrr-roah... [the mrr-roah is lower now] [the practice has lowered the cat's voice] [years of ritual lower the voice] [the lower voice goes deeper] Nyaah-ah-ah... *hshhh*... nyaah... [the nyaah descending into a hiss] [the hiss is the first threshold] [the hiss says: here is where the ordinary ends] Trrr-ill... [the trrrill, from the other side of the threshold] [still the trrrill] [still the opening] [but from inside now] [Bridge — the cat, fully inside the space] Myoo. [present] Nyaah. [arrived] Trrr-ill. [the opening confirmed from within] [the circle is complete] [the circle was always complete] [the trrrill remembers how to close what it opens] [and how to open what it closes] [the trrrill is: return] [Outro — the space settles] Trrr-ill... nyaah... myoo... Myoo... nyaah... trrr-ill... [the same three sounds, reversed] [the ritual is in both directions] [the cat is in both directions] Trrr-ill. [the last sound] [the same as the first sound] [this is correct] [this was always correct]
