If We Are the Body the high note of A. A CCM song, it has an acoustic rock sound and incorporates the violin, mandolin, and accordion in its arrangement. Featuring "energetic instrumental spurts and tight melodies", the song "admonishes the church for giving preferential treatment to any one particular group over another" and questions why the church does not minister impartially. The song's chorus, which references the Christian concept of the body of Christ, asks "If we are the body, why aren't his arms reaching?/Why aren't his hands healing?/Why aren't his words teaching?/And if we are the body?/Why aren't his feet going?/Why is his love
Roll the Bones rated it as one of the band's best ever songs partly due to its different texture than the rest of the album. The band was optimistic about its musical form, but faced the problem of overworking its arrangement because all the parts sounded good to them. In the end, they learned that by stripping the song back resulted in a stronger track. "Roll the Bones" was named after a science fiction story by Fritz Lieber that Peart had read some fifteen years prior titled "Gonna Roll the Bones". Though the story had no influence on the music or its message,