“Would?” was written by Jerry Cantrell for Alice in Chains’ 1992 album Dirt. It first appeared on the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe’s film Singles, in which the band made a cameo as a bar band. Cantrell wrote it as a tribute to his friend Andrew Wood, the Mother Love Bone singer who passed away in 1990.
Released to US radio in June 1992, it reached No. 31 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In the UK it peaked at No. 19, the band’s highest position there at the time. The track has stayed in regular rotation ever since, and in 2019 a trailer for the second season of The Punisher sent it back onto Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart at No. 15.