[The ritual is complete.] [Or the ritual is beginning.] [The ritual completed and began in the same moment.] [The cat is at the threshold.] [The threshold is the point where night becomes day.] [The point is not a line.] [The point is a state.] [The cat occupies the state.] [The cat is the state.] [The threshold — neither side] ▼ mrrrow ▼ [still descending] [but also] mrrrow ▼ [ascending from within the descent] [both movements are present] [the ▼ is inside the ascent] [the ascent is inside the ▼] [the cat moves in both directions] [the cat is the direction] [Verse 1 — the light before light] m̸r̸r̸r̸o̸w̸ [corrupted, from the night] mrrrow [clear, toward the day] [the same sound] [two states] n̷y̷a̷a̷a̷ [corrupted] nyaaa [clear] [arriving into clarity] [clarity does not erase what came before] [the night is inside the dawn] [the corruption is inside the clarity] [the cat holds both] [Chorus — the dawn statement] ▼ MROW ▼ [still the descent symbol] [but the mrow is brighter] [the ▼ hasn't left] [the ▼ will never leave] [the ▼ is part of the cat's vocabulary now] [the descent made the cat richer] [not darker] [richer] nyaaa [clear, warm] [the nyaaa that was corrupted in Track 1 is now clear] [it was clearing across the whole album] [Track 1 was where it started clearing] [Track 6 is where it arrived] [Verse 2 — what the ritual left behind] wem. [home — the word from Track 4] [home is still here in the dawn] [the reversed language didn't disappear] [it became part of the forward language] [the cat speaks both now] [the cat always spoke both] [the ritual taught the cat what it already knew] prrr [the purr, now in daylight] [the purr sounds the same] [it has always sounded the same] [the symbols changed] [the darkness changed] [the purr was the constant] [Bridge — the full circle] ▼ mrrrow ▼ mrrrow ▼ mrrrow ▼ [from Track 1] [the same phrase] [it sounds different now] [it is different now] [because you are different now] [you passed through the descent] [you are at the threshold] [the mrrrow carries what happened] [the ▼ is no longer only down] [the ▼ points toward what is below] [below is warm] [below is wem] [the ▼ points home] [Outro — the cat at dawn] ▼ mrrrow ▼ [the last descent symbol] nyaaa [the first clear note of whatever comes next] prrr prrr prrr prrr [the purr in the threshold light] ▼ . ▼ [the final notation] [between the triangles] [the dot] [the cat] [at the threshold] [the ritual was the threshold] [the threshold is always open] [the cat is always at it] [this was always true] [the album was how we found out] prrr....................... [the album ends] [the threshold remains] [the cat remains] [this is sufficient]
