"A Looking in View" is a song by American rock band Alice in Chains, featured on their fourth studio album, Black Gives Way to Blue (2009).

It was the first publicly released song from the album and was available for purchase on June 30, 2009,[1] and for a limited time it was available as a free download through the official Alice in Chains website.

It's funny how hard we fight to hang on to a bone we can't pull through a hole in the fence, or how difficult it is to put down the bag of bricks and move on.

[14]On June 30, 2009, "A Looking in View" was made available for purchase via iTunes and Amazon,[1][15] and for a limited time it was available as a free download through the official Alice in Chains website in early July.

[23] At the 6:55 mark of the video,[24] a woman (played by Sacha Senisch)[23] is seen lying on a cracked desert floor similarly to the cover art of Alice in Chains' 1992 album Dirt.

After sitting down with the band, it became clear that the song dealt with the idea of people really struggling and dealing with intense psychological issues, finding themselves trapped within their own heads and often solely holding the key to their own freedom.

The young male (Chad Post)[23] struggles with the obsessions of time, symmetry, arrangement, numbers, and the fear of causing harm to the person he loves.

The older male (Devin Zephyr)[23] is a religious zealot with struggles with the white washed lie of holiness and the lustful manifestations of his own sins.