Take a Load Off

"Take a Load Off"
Single by Stone Temple Pilots
from the album Stone Temple Pilots
Released	June 2010
Format	CD single Digital download
Recorded	2009
Genre	Alternative rock, hard rock
Length	3:11
Label	Atlantic
Writer(s)	Dean DeLeo (music), Scott Weiland (lyrics)
Producer(s)	Robert DeLeo, Dean DeLeo
Stone Temple Pilots singles chronology
"Between the Lines" (2010) "Take a Load Off" (2010) "Cinnamon" (2010)
Stone Temple Pilots track listing "Between the Lines" (Track 1) "Take a Load Off" (Track 2) "Huckleberry Crumble" (Track 3) Music sample "Take a Load Off" Music video "Take A Load Off" on YouTube

"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.^[1] 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."^[2]

Charts

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Billboard Alternative Songs	24[3]
Billboard Rock Songs	24[3]
Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	23

References

1. "STONE TEMPLE PILOTS: 'Take A Load Off' Video Released". BlabberMouth.
2. Stone Temple Pilots (band); Ted Stryker (interviewer) (May 17, 2010). World Premiere & Interview: Stone Temple Pilots "Huckleberry Crumble" (Streaming video). Los Angeles, California: KROQ. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
3. "Stone Temple Pilots - Take a Load Off". Billboard.com. Retrieved December 29, 2011.

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics