“Your Decision” is a song by Alice in Chains, featured on their fourth studio album, Black Gives Way to Blue (2009). Written by Jerry Cantrell, who also sings lead vocals on the song, it was released as the second single from the album on November 16, 2009 in the UK,[1] and on December 1, 2009 in the US.[4] The single reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs[5] and Mainstream Rock charts,[6] and No. 4 on the Alternative Songs chart.[7] “Your Decision” was featured on CSI‘s season 10, episode 8, “Lover’s Lane”.
In an interview for the making of the video of “Your Decision”, singer William DuVall stated that “This song is all about choices and their consequences”.[8] Many fans believe this song was written from Jerry Cantrell to the late Layne Staley, who couldn’t kick his addiction to drugs and died in 2002.
DuVall and drummer Sean Kinney stated that the song has a simple message: DuVall: “Consequences, you know. It’s your decision. You’ve got to sleep in the bed you make, you know. Things happen, and it’s just funny how one little left or right turn in your life can just totally take you off on a tangent that can be so bizarre and unanticipated, you know.”[9]
Kinney: “I’ve taken a lot of lefts and a lot of rights. I’m sure we all have. You’ve got to deal with it when you get there.”[9]
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