Take a Load Off
"Take a Load Off" is a song by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots. "Take a Load Off" is the second track off the band's sixth studio album, Stone Temple Pilots, released in 2010. The song was the album's second single, after the #1 hit "Between the Lines". A music video for "Take a Load Off" was released on September 8, 2010. The song was used in Shift 2: Unleashed. Composition "Take a Load Off" was composed by guitarist Dean DeLeo. In writing this song, singer Scott Weiland listened to and studied poetical lyricists to learn how to free his writing from his autobiographical and "self-obsessed" nature. "There's an art to telling a story, and it can mean anything, or it can mean nothing." Charts References Stone Temple Pilots songs 2010 singles Song recordings produced by Don Was Songs written by Dean DeLeo Songs written by Scott Weiland 2009 songs Atlantic Records singles