 While "Hell's Winter" deals with personal change, "Depart from Me" deals with the difficulty of implementing these changes.Describing the recording process, Cage remembers that El-P had been working on a track, and Cage soon thought of a hook that would fit the song, and recorded its freestyle lyrics on the couch.El-P and Cage later decided not to record a studio take of the track "because it just had a vibe to it."