This song is the first single from the album. It features some vocals from Zakk Wylde’s former band mate Ozzy Osbourne singing a line in the chorus (The feelings I once felt are now dead and gone) with Wylde.

It was just a matter of trying to write something that’s so minimal. You listen to a song like Helpless by Neil Young, and it’s three chords. That’s pretty much it. Or All Along the Watchtower or Knocking on Heaven’s Door. They’re three chords and that’s it, but when you’re listening to it, it doesn’t seem that repetitive. It’s the melody and then the lyrics. If you’re just listening to the backing track, it’d be like, “Dude, enough already. Do I have to hear these three chords again?” It’s just like, “Well, wait till you hear what we have over top of it. Because that’s just the foundation.” You listen to something like Whole Lotta Love, even Paranoid, there’s three parts to it. You have the opening riff, you have the verse, and you have that little section and then it gets back to the verse again. Stillborn was just a matter of trying to write with as few chords as I possibly could.

-Zakk Wylde

The lyrics about a man whose girlfriend treats him so poorly and takes such advantage of him that his love for her dies, and, indeed, he feels dead inside. Wylde insisted that it’s not autobiographical and that if any girl was treating him like that, he would simply break up with her and turn the tables.