[The yowl is the void's aperture.] [An aperture is an opening.] [The purr fills the void.] [The yowl opens the void outward.] [On the first album, the yowl was an alarm: YOWWWWL!!] [This album, the yowl is a door: yow-ool.] [The diphthong matters.] [yow: the beginning — breath, reaching up] [ool: the end — settling, going deep] [the slide between them: the aperture] [the aperture is what opens] [The yowl's anatomy — phonetic] Yow... [the first half] [the yow is: reaching] [the tongue high, the lips forward, the breath going up] ...ool. [the second half] [the -ool is: arriving] [the tongue dropping, the throat opening, the breath descending] [yow-ool: reach and arrive] [the aperture between them: the opening] [Verse 1 — the yowl as aperture] Yow-ool... mrr-roah... yow-ool... [aperture — descend — aperture] [the yow-ool opens a space] [the mrr-roah enters the space] [the yow-ool opens again, larger] Nyaah... yow-ool... nyaah... [the nyaah before the aperture] [the aperture] [the nyaah after — different, passed through] [what passes through the aperture changes] [this is what apertures do] Yow-ool-ool... [extended — yow-ool-ool] [the -ool repeated: the descent inside the yowl] [each additional -ool is deeper] [the yow-ool-ool is a descent inside an opening] [Chorus — the aperture at full width] YOW-OOL! Myoo. YOW-OOL! [open — enter — open wider] Mrr-roah-ah... yow-ool... mrr-ROAH! [the descent enters the aperture and arrives deeper] YOW-OOL YOW-OOL YOW-OOL! [three apertures] [the void, multiply opened] Prrrr... [from Track 7 — the purr, still present] [the purr fills the openings] [the openings fill the void] [Verse 2 — what the yowl opens onto] [the yow-ool opens the void] [the void opens onto: wem] [every opening leads to wem] [every aperture is a way home] Yow-ool... wem... yow-ool... [open — home — open again] [the home is visible through the aperture] [the home was always visible through the aperture] [the aperture was always a window to wem] Myoo... yow-ool... myoo... [myoo — the cat's call — opening — the call returned] [the yow-ool between two myoos] [the call, the aperture, the call returned] [the returned call is: wem calling back] [Bridge — the yowl extended] Yow... [the reaching] [pause — the aperture, held open] ...ool. [the arriving] [the pause between them is the aperture at maximum width] [the pause is the void, opened] [nothing passes through the pause except the cat's attention] [the attention is sufficient] [attention is the only thing that needs to pass through] [the aperture was opened for attention] [the cat's attention is now in the void] [the void receives it] [this is the ritual's purpose] [Outro — the aperture, letting through] Yow-ool... [open] Prrrr... [the purr, through the aperture] Myoo... [the myoo, through the aperture] Wem... [home, through the aperture] Yow-ool. [the aperture closing] [not sealed — resting] [Track 9 is the resting] [Track 9 is: after the aperture]
