"My Song" spent 21 weeks on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and peaked at No.

The track begins as a ballad but brews into a real rocker midway through, building on Cantrell's layers of edgy and chiming guitars.

Schenck told that the record company was very upset with him about the concept of the video, telling him that it would never play on MTV.

The video features Cantrell being held captive and tied up in a basement by a woman (played by Ann Magnuson) who tortures him.

Toward the end of the video, however, Cantrell breaks out of the basement and makes a run for it with the woman in hot pursuit.