"Down in a Hole" is a single from Alice in Chains' 1992 album Dirt. It is the fourth song on most pressings of the album an twelfth on others. Songwriter and guitarist Jerry Cantrell was at first hesitant to present the song to the band, feeling that the song was too soft, but after a positive response from the band, they followed through and recorded it, and it even became one of the five video-singles from the album. An acoustic version was performed for the band's Unplugged performance.