Most fans were introduced to the new album by "My Sacrifice," a big, mid-tempo guitar workout that seems sure to incite more than a few flick-your-Bic moments whenever the band plays it live. "When you are with me, I’m free…I’m careless…I believe," Stapp’s baritone booms in the chorus. The song tells of a reunion with an old friend, making its title line seem like a non-sequitur. Where’s the sacrifice in happily spending time with an old friend? Or is it, in fact, an old friend at all?

"He was reconnecting with himself," Tremonti says of the tune’s basic premise. "After all the chaos over the past years and years of people judging, and being in the whirlwind of what we’re doing, [Scott was] finally being calm and at peace with himself, finding himself again."