[The ward is placed.] [The circle is open.] [The cat begins to descend.] [On the first album, the descent was a discovery.] [This album, the descent is a direction the cat knows.] [The cat descends the way the cat descends stairs:] [deliberately, both paws tested, certain of the bottom.] [The first step down — the mrr-roah] Mrr... [the r, held] [the r is the descent itself] [the r is: the beginning of going down] ...roah. [the -roah opens at the bottom of the r] [the -roah is the first depth] [mrr-roah: the sound of going somewhere lower] [Verse 1 — the descent, one step at a time] Mrr-roah... myoo... mrr-roah... [descend — pause — descend] [the myoo is: I am still here] [the mrr-roah is: I am going] Nyaah-ah-ah... mrr-roah... nyaah... [the nyaah extended downward — nyaah-ah-ah falling] [the mrr-roah receives it] [the nyaah shortens on return — nyaah, briefer, changed] Mrr-roah-ah... nyaah... mrr-ROAH. [the mrr-roah extended — mrr-roah-ah, the -ah added] [the -ah is the depth marker] [each additional -ah is a level deeper] [mrr-ROAH: arrived at a new depth] [Pre-chorus — the descent confirmed] Mrr-roah. Mrr-roah. MRR-ROAH. [three times — certain, more certain, arrived] Nyaah. Myoo. Nyaah. [the sounds from above, heard differently now] [the nyaah is the same nyaah] [it sounds different from here] [depth changes what sounds like what] [Chorus — the descent at full motion] MRR-ROAH-AH-AH nyaah-ah-ah MYOO-OO! [everything extending, going deeper] Trrr-ill [from above — the opening, heard from below] [the trrrill sounds like something else from here] [from below, the trrrill sounds like: a way back] [the cat notes this] [the cat is not going back yet] MRR-ROAH! MRR-ROAH! MRR-ROAH-AH! [descending] [deeper with each repetition] [the -ah added, then extended] [Verse 2 — the familiar depth] [the cat has been here before] [the cat knows this depth] [the depth knows the cat] Mrr-roah... *hshhh*... mrr-roah... [the mrr-roah and the hiss together] [the hiss is the boundary between depths] [the cat is crossing it] Nyaah-ah-ah-ah... [the nyaah extended across four notes now] [nyaah-ah-ah-ah: the sound of arriving at depth] [the four -ahs are the four sides of the depth] [the cat is inside all four] *Hshhh*... mrr-roah... *hshhh*... [hiss — descend — hiss] [the hiss on both sides] [the descent between two hisses] [the descent is: through the threshold, into the next depth] [Bridge — the cat at the threshold of the void] Mrr-roah. [this depth] Mrr-roah-ah. [deeper] Mrr-roah-ah-ah. [deeper still] Mrr-roah-ah-ah-ah. [the threshold] [each additional -ah is one more step down] [this is the notation of descent] [the -ahs accumulate] [the cat accumulates depth] [Outro — descending into Track 4] Mrr-roah-ah-ah-ah... [still descending] Nyaah-ah-ah... [nyaah following] *Hshhh*... [the boundary approaching] Mrr-roah... [the sound of going] [Track 4 begins where this ends] [the descent continues]
