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Take a Load Off
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Take a Load Off
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Stone Temple Pilots
| album = Stone Temple Pilots
| released = June 2010
| recorded = 2009
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Hard rock
| length = 3:11
| label = Atlantic
| writer = Dean DeLeo (music),
Scott Weiland (lyrics)
| producer = Robert DeLeo, Dean DeLeo
| prev_title = Between the Lines
| prev_year = 2010
| next_title = Cinnamon
| next_year = 2010
| misc =
}}
"'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."
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References
Category:Stone Temple Pilots songs
Category:2010 singles
Category:Song recordings produced by Don Was
Category:Songs written by Dean DeLeo
Category:Songs written by Scott Weiland
Category:2009 songs
Category:Atlantic Records singles
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