"Heavy" is a song by American post-grunge band Collective Soul.

It was the last of the band's seven number ones on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks, as well as their most successful, staying atop the chart for 15 weeks.

In a December 2017 interview with Songfacts, lead singer Ed Roland explained the inspiration behind "Heavy".

Referencing Collective Soul's earlier hit, "December", he said: Once again, I wanted to write a song that didn't have a title in the lyrics.

So, once again, I was being a little bitch I guess - I felt like I was being taken advantage of, so the whole thing is, "All your weight it falls on me."