Burden in My Hand

"Burden in My Hand"
Single by Soundgarden
from the album Down on the Upside
B-side"Karaoke"
ReleasedSeptember 18, 1996
RecordedNovember 1995 – February 1996
Length4:50
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Chris Cornell
Producer(s)Adam Kasper, Soundgarden
Soundgarden singles chronology
"Pretty Noose"
(1996)
"Burden in My Hand"
(1996)
"Blow Up the Outside World"
(1996)
Music video
"Burden in My Hand" on YouTube

"Burden in My Hand" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, "Burden in My Hand" was released on September 18, 1996, as the second single from the band's fifth studio album, Down on the Upside (1996). The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it spent five weeks at number one. The song was included on Soundgarden's 1997 greatest hits album, A-Sides.