 The album was bookended by the two parts of "In the Presence of Enemies", written and conceived as a single piece but split into two halves for the purposes of the album.The other six tracks included the most recent part of Portnoy's continuing AA Saga with the song "Repentance".In the same year, the first version of Rich Wilson's "Lifting Shadows", an authorized history of the band's first twenty years, was released.