[The cat is returning.] [The return is not retreat.] [The retreat would be: leaving because it was too much.] [The return is: having been fully present, coming back.] [The cat went into the void.] [The cat was fully present in the void.] [The cat found wem.] [The cat is now returning from wem.] [Returning from home is not leaving home.] [Home comes with you.] [Wem travels.] [The return — the nyaah heard differently] Nyaah. [the nyaah after the void] [the same nyaah as Track 1] [heard from the other side of everything] [the same nyaah] [different cat] Nyaah. [again] [each nyaah on the return carries what was found] [the void, carried] [the wem, carried] [the dot, carried] [the nyaah is heavier now] [the heaviness is not burden] [the heaviness is: having been somewhere] [Verse 1 — the sounds, returning] Nyaah... mrr-roah... nyaah... [the mrr-roah now ascending] [the same sound that descended in Track 3] [ascending] [ascent sounds like descent from the inside] [the mrr-roah doesn't change] [the direction changes] [the cat knows which direction it is going] Trrr-ill... nyaah... trrr-ill... [the trrrill from Track 1 — heard from here] [the trrrill was the opening] [from inside the return, the trrrill is: the return's shape] [the trrrill is: return to beginning] [this is always what the trrrill meant] [the cat understands now why the album opened with it] Nyaah-ah... myoo... nyaah... [the nyaah extended on the way up] [the -ah holds the note of returning] [the myoo arrives] [the nyaah shortens, lighter] [lighter because: the return is lighter than the descent] [the cat has less weight to carry going home] [no — the cat carries more going home] [the lightness is: the weight is in the right place] [Chorus — the return, stated] Nyaah. Myoo. Nyaah. [the same three-sound sequence as Track 1's verse] [now heard on the return] [the same sounds] [the same cat] [the difference is: the void has been passed through] [the difference is audible] [the nyaah on the return is the nyaah of someone who has been somewhere] Trrr-ill! [the trrrill — recognition] [the opening, reached again] [the return, confirmed] NYAAH! MRR-ROAH! NYAAH! [the sounds, arriving back] [Verse 2 — what the cat brings back] Wem... nyaah... wem... [the word for home, still present] [the cat brings wem back through the trrrill] [wem travels] [wem was always here] [the ritual confirmed what was always here] Prrrr... nyaah... prrrr... [the purr from the void, still present] [the purr carries the void's temperature] [the void's temperature is: warm] [the cat brings warmth back through the opening] Nyaah-ah-ah... wem... nyaah... [the nyaah extended, carrying wem] [the nyaah and wem arriving together] [this is what the return delivers] [the return delivers: home, carried, present] [Bridge — the trrrill, from the other side] Trrr-ill. [the opening] [from the return side, the trrrill is: the closing] [same sound] [the trrrill is: what you say when the circle is about to complete] [the circle: trrrill (open) → descent → void → wem → trrrill (close)] [the trrrill closes what it opened] [the cat speaks the trrrill] [the circle begins to close] [Outro — ascending through the levels] Nyaah-ah-ah-ah... [four -ahs: the depth on the way up] Nyaah-ah-ah... [three -ahs: ascending] Nyaah-ah... [two -ahs: lighter] Nyaah... [one -ah: almost returned] Nyaah. [arrived] [the -ahs reduce on the return] [each -ah shed is a level left behind] [not abandoned — carried differently] [the depth doesn't disappear on the return] [the depth becomes internal] [the cat carries the levels inside the nyaah now] [the levels are inside the cat] [the cat is the levels] Trrr-ill. [the circle, closing] [Track 11 is the closing]
