"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.
A music video for "Take a Load Off" was released on September 8, 2010.
"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.