The proggish title track was written by John Curulewski, is about the serpent beginning to rise.

It features an ending glissando which was taken from a Beaver and Krause track called "Spaced" in 1970, for which they were credited on the album.

The song was played on the Dr. Demento radio show and "Weird Al" Yankovic supposedly loved it.

The album finished with Handel's Hallelujah classical piece, features all the band members singing and DeYoung played a pipe organ on cathedral in Chicago.

Dennis DeYoung is indirectly quoted as saying it was "one of the worst recorded and produced in the history of music.