With the album's opening track "Want", Givony compared the verse sections to the words of Allen Ginsberg: "the overflowing confession of a bibliophile with too much to say". Schwarzenbach said "Seethruskin" was about the "far reaching  racism that is an outgrowth of apathy and classist divisions in schools and neighborhoods". "Imaginary War" incorporates a sample of a scream taken from the film The Warriors (1979).
This led Givony to compare the verse sections of the album's opening track "Want" to Allen Ginsberg's words: "the abundant expression of a bibliophile with too much to say". Schwarzenbach stated that "Seethruskin" was about the "extensive prejudice arising from apathy and class-based divisions in schools and neighborhoods". "Imaginary War" incorporates a sample of a scream taken from the 1979 film The Warriors.