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 (Stone Temple Pilots song)|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. It is also the band's last official major single to feature longtime member Scott Weiland before he would be fired from the band in 2013 and die in 2015 from a drug overdose.

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."