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==Covers and tributes==
Throughout the album, parts of songs originally recorded by other artists are played by the band.

*The segue from "Burning My Soul" into "[[A Mind Beside Itself#Voices|Voices]]" features John Petrucci playing the first half of [[John Williams]]' "Force Theme" from ''[[Star Wars]]''.
*The ending of "[[Take the Time]]" contains the solo from [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'s "[[Freebird]]" and the main riff from [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "[[Moby Dick (instrumental)|Moby Dick]]".
*"Derek Sherinian Piano Solo" contains themes that would later be used in the track "Platt Opus" by [[Platypus (band)|Platypus]] (a progressive rock supergroup to which Sherinian and John Myung were members).
*Before the beginning of "Trial of Tears", and at the end of the song, Petrucci plays the famous five tone motif from the film ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''. The opening of the same song contains portions of the [[Rush (band)|Rush]] songs "[[Xanadu (Rush song)|Xanadu]]" and "[[The Trees (Rush song)|The Trees]]" played by Mike Portnoy.
*"Peruvian Skies" contains portions of [[Pink Floyd]]'s "[[Have a Cigar]]" and [[Metallica]]'s "[[Enter Sandman]]".
*"John Petrucci Guitar Solo" contains portions of [[Liquid Tension Experiment]]'s "Paradigm Shift" (a progressive rock supergroup of which Portnoy and Petrucci are members), his own song Gemini which he would eventually release in his second solo album [[Terminal Velocity (album)|Terminal Velocity]] and [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s "[[Flight of the Bumblebee]]".