And were coming out of dreams / And were coming back to dreams is the first thing you hear Bill say as you remake your acquaintance on YTIA. Right out the gate, hes standing in two places at once: meeting up with old friends behind the scenes and encountering them on the record, finding himself coming round the bend and then again as someone else on down the line. Like the character actor he played on Gold Record, writing stories about other people, telling jokes about everyone, and in singing them, becoming the songs.