From an Inside Studio G interview with Garth:
“It’s not like I’m superstitious, knock on wood,” said Garth, knocking on his head. “You know, they say superstition is the lack of faith. For me, I don’t think it hurts to have both … What I wanted after ‘Where The Cross Don’t Burn,’ I wanted four or five seconds of just silence to kinda absorb what that song said, and [Track 13] having to play for two or three seconds to register for the computers and then move on to [Track 14]. It all fell perfectly together.”