Justin debuted this track after splitting from Selena and later hinted on Twitter that it was about their split. "Recovery is an acknowledgment that in life you can't just fall down and not get over things. You have to step up and recover," he tweeted. "At the time, I was going through a very hard breakup and when you're going through stuff like that, you think that the world is just gonna end. Then you wake up the next day and realise that life has to go on. Recovery is that feeling you get when you start to move on and make things better for yourself because yesterday is gone and tomorrow is here."