Your Decision (4:42)

“Your Decision” is a song by Alice in Chains, featured on their fourth studio album Black Gives Way to Blue (2009). It was released as the third single from the album on November 16, 2009 in the UK, and was released in the US on December 1, 2009. The fourth track of the album, “Your Decision” is a power ballad that features an acoustic rhythm and breaks from the dark, aggressive leanings of the previous songs in exchange for an emotional tone that, while muted and perhaps tinged with sad resignation, can also be interpreted as calmer and more at peace. The single has, so far, reached number one on the Billboard Rock Songs chart, number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and number four on the Alternative Songs chart. This makes Alice in Chains the first artist to have two songs top the US Rock Songs chart.

In an interview for the making of the video of “Your Decision”, Duvall stated “This song is all about choices and their consequences”. Many fans believe this song was written from Cantrell to the late Layne Staley, who couldn’t kick his addiction to drugs. Staley died in 2002.