[The circle is complete.] [The cat is back.] [The cat is the same cat.] [The cat has the void inside it now.] [The cat has wem inside it now.] [The cat goes to the buttons.] [The cat presses: come.] [The cat presses: bed.] [The cat presses: more.] [These were the last buttons on the lullaby in Volume 1 Button Songs.] [The cat presses them again.] [The same buttons.] [The cat who presses them is different.] [The void makes everything mean more.] [The cat: more means more now.] [A note on the button vocabulary:] [The cat has added a new button since Volume 1.] [The new button: wem.] [The button labeller asked what the word meant.] [The cat pressed: home.] [The button now says: wem.] [The cat is the only one who knows why.] [The cat presses wem for the first time.] [First press] ▼ wem ▼ [The new button.] [Pressed for the first time.] [The descent led here.] [The void was here.] [The practice was for this.] [One press, with everything the practice built.] [Wem.] [Verse 1] Come. Bed. Come. [The cat: come was always home-adjacent.] [The cat knows this now.] [The cat: come is you, here, which is wem.] Love. Wem. Love. [The cat: love and wem are the same temperature.] [The cat presses them adjacent.] [This is new.] [The cat: love was not next to wem before.] [The cat learned they belong together.] Happy. Wem. Happy. [The cat: happiness and home.] [The happiness that lives inside home.] [The cat: wem-happiness is different from food-happiness.] [The cat: wem-happiness is the ground under everything.] [Chorus] ▼ COME ▼ BED ▼ MORE ▼ [The lullaby's final three buttons, returned to.] [The cat: come means the human, here.] [The cat: bed means the safe place.] [The cat: more means tomorrow, trust, faith.] Wem. Love. Wem. [The cat: home is inside love.] [The cat: love is inside home.] [The ward was always protecting this.] ▼ COME ▼ BED ▼ MORE ▼ [Verse 2] More. [The cat: more now means more.] [The cat: not just more food, more scratch, more play.] [The cat: more means the void again, when ready.] [The cat: more means the wem, confirmed again.] [The cat: more means the practice, continued.] [The cat: more means the trrrill, the descent, the hiss, the wem, the dot, the return.] [The cat: more means all of it, again.] [The cat: more has always been the deepest word.] [The practice confirmed this.] [The cat: more is trusting the practice continues.] [The cat: more is the next ritual.] [The cat: more is faith.] More. [One press, with everything.] [Verse 3] Wem. Come. Wem. [The cat: home — the human — home.] [The cat: the human is home.] [The cat: come means please be where home is.] [The cat: home is where you are.] Wem. Bed. Wem. [The cat: home — the safe place — home.] [The cat: the bed is a form of wem.] [The cat: the safe place is a form of home.] Wem. More. Wem. [The cat: home — tomorrow — home.] [The cat: more means more wem.] [The cat: more wem means more of this.] [This: the cat, the human, the bed, the love, the practice, the return.] [Bridge] No. [From the ward — still there.] Wem. [What it protects.] No. [The ward is still standing.] [The ward was placed in Track 2.] [The ward held while the cat was in the void.] [The ward protected wem while the cat went to find wem.] [This is what the ward was for.] [The ward worked.] Come. [The cat, returned.] More. [Always more.] [Final Chorus] ▼ COME ▼ WEM ▼ MORE ▼ [The structure, with wem at the centre.] [Wem has replaced bed.] [The cat: bed is a kind of wem.] [The cat: wem is larger than bed.] [The cat: wem is home.] [The cat: home is all of this.] Love. Happy. Wem. [The three things the practice was protecting.] [The three things found at the bottom of everything.] MORE. WEM. MORE. [The cat: more home.] [More of the home the practice revealed.] [More of the warmth.] [More of the wem.] [Outro] Wem... [Home.] Come... [The human, here.] Bed... [The safe place.] More... [Tomorrow.] Love... [Always.] Wem. [The last button.] [The last word.] [Home.] [The album ends on the word the practice built toward.] [The album ends on the word the cat discovered by reversing the tape.] [The album ends on: home.] [Home is where albums end.] [Home is where albums begin.] [The trrrill, in the distance.] [The opening that is also the return.] [The circle.] [▼wem▼]
