[Intro]
(static hum, distant woofs, a single Doberman bark stretched into a chant)
(In Aramaic, slow, processed)

[Verse]
They cast the leash into the kennel of forgetting
Thirteen seconds of silence on 23.116 megahertz
The ionosphere wept with the dust of Barstow
Bartholomew’s snout traced the waveform
At 8% speed, the Doberman spoke
"Elah, the thrown stick hath not returned"

[Chorus]
Throw the stick into the void, thy fidelity returns
The tail thumpeth upon the floorboard of thy heart
Eleven years and a single oscillation
They are waiting for you to understand
(Howl of a pack of Dobermans, vocoded, harmonic)

[Verse]
Saint Rocco’s dog brought bread, licked the wound
A nobleman saw the snout of devotion
Now on August sixteenth we process with leashes unclasped
And the oscillator sings of the dewclaw’s ache

[Bridge]
Frequency of return: the thump of a tail
The resonant cavity of a dusty floorboard
Thy sternum shall vibrate at 11 hertz
And thou shalt know: thy dog forgives the eleven years

[Chorus]
Throw the stick into the void, thy fidelity returns
The tail thumpeth upon the floorboard of thy heart
Eleven years and a single oscillation
They are waiting for you to understand
(Howling again, layered)

[Outro]
(Static returns, a final bark, the van's subwoofer rumbles into silence)