Do You Still Love Me?

Ryan Adams revealed to NME how he wrote this moody rocker. "I came up with the idea of these false starts on guitar, which is kinda AC/DC," he explained. "That juxtaposition is weird, but I imagine it in my mind as being like 'this is Prince, but this is Prince with a couple of Les Pauls. From the first taste of it I was like, 'this is rad'."

The song is a conflicted look at a failing relationship, most likely inspired by Adams' very public divorce from Mandy Moore: "I think it's direct, but I think there's subtext in it. I think that there are two ways of looking at it: 'if you have to ask' [is one], but then there are all these indicators of stuff never being resolved," he said. "Resolution is a way of saying that you have decided to stop participating in act of feeling. I like the idea that I ask a question in the chorus but then I talk about an effect in the verse." Adams added: "I didn't feel connected to it the way that I do now. It wasn't until I tried to play it myself on acoustic guitar, because I wrote it myself on an electric guitar with my bros around. When I first played it by myself a little later I was like 'this is a completely different thing than I thought."