I was so surprised that the song was almost 8 mins long, it felt about 5 mins to me.
Absolutely! Also, IlluminationTheory feels like it's more like 14 minutes to me for whatever reason. I guess that's a good thing...time files when you're having fun.
TBP is one of my favorites on the album. As some have mentioned, it is the first song (when streaming the album) which really hit home for me, other than the previously released TEI and AFtR.
I remember being disappointed with TLG, then being very underwhelmed on the first listen of FAS and TEM. So at that point, I was starving for something great. TBP was that song...it gave me hope for the rest of the album, and it was all magic from the moment it came on all the way until the end of IT.