The song was included on the compilation albums Nothing Safe: Best of the Box (1999), Music Bank (1999), Greatest Hits (2001), and The Essential Alice in Chains (2006).
The song, written by guitarist/co-vocalist Jerry Cantrell, concerns the late lead singer of Mother Love Bone, Andrew Wood, who died of a heroin overdose in 1990.
"Would?" was released as a single in 1992, coinciding with the release of the movie Singles.
The song peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.
The UK single was released in January 1993 and reached the top twenty in the UK and the top forty in the Netherlands.