Lyrically, the album seems to me incredibly self-aware as well as referential to Phish and their history and histories. "Steal away" the very first words of the album, recall "Steal away before the dawn" from Cavern. "Devotion to a Dream" seems to me to be about multiple things: 1: the dream that is Phish, the dream of unfettered musical freedom and exploration 2. Phish inviting us even closer to them, disabling the promises that keep the theatricality of their enterprise aloft, the "charade is over," the "curtain's coming down." Which is of course a reference to the decision to invite us into the studio on Halloween, so to speak. As well as a reference to another great song of theirs, The Curtain.

Of course there is more.