"Madagascar" has been described as having a "trip hop pulse"; its bridge features interwoven samples of quotations from the movies "Mississippi Burning", "Casualties of War", "Cool Hand Luke", "Braveheart", and "Seven", and also contains several excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches "I Have a Dream" and "Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool". "Time" described it as "Axl's attempt to do Led Zeppelin's Kashmir. Rose said of the quotes "Dr. King's words have been edited together from multiple speeches as to bring the sentiments of his messages into the context of this particular song and to present their importance as strongly as possible." "This I Love" is a song written in 1992 that Rose called "the heaviest thing I've written". The song is a piano ballad with Rose singing to a former lover. Rose described the song stating "It's a lot more intricate than I think most realize yet as the guitar and vocals are placed as they should be so dominant. The main string melody in that section I had originally written to a hip-hop loop as well." "Spin" compared the song to the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber. "Prostitute" is another orchestral-lined power ballad that features the lyrics "Ask yourself / Why I would choose / To prostitute myself / To live with fortune and shame". According to producer Youth, Rose "labored" over the song because past successes weighed heavily on him. The song was described by "Loudwire" as "blending classical orchestrations and electro-beats with blistering guitar solos and some of [Rose's] highest pitched shrieking." "Consequence of Sound" compared Rose's vocals to "Bruce Hornsby with distortion".