Love and Mercy

Wilson said he was playing "What the World Needs Now" in his piano room when he went into his own song, which he called "probably the most spiritual song I've ever written". Russ Titelman co-produced and suggested its vocal counterpoints, and contributed a lyric without taking a credit.

It came out as a single on 1 July 1988 and did not chart, and the biographer Mark Dillon put part of the album's weak sales down to there being no music video. He redid it for the soundtrack of the 1995 documentary I Just Wasn't Made for These Times. Since the late 1990s a stripped-down version has been his closing number at solo concerts.

Randy Stonehill, Wilco and the Libera choir have recorded it, and the 2014 biopic about Wilson took its title.