When You're Gone

Album: The Best Damn Thing (2007)
Charted: 3 24
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Songfacts®:

  • Avril Lavigne was married to Sum 41 lead singer Deryck Whibley when she wrote this song. In "When You're Gone," she expresses how she feels when they are apart, something that happens a lot when they are each touring. >>
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    Sarah - Raliegh, VA
  • Avril wrote this with Butch Walker, who also produced the track.
  • Lavigne told MTV News that she didn't deliberately set out to write a love song. She said: "I was writing a slow song and that just brings out all that stuff in you, all that emotional stuff. It's not cheesy, because I wrote it. If I was older, a professional writer coming up with all that, that would be lame."
  • This reached #1 in several countries including Argentina, Indonesia and Portugal.

Comments: 6

  • Mpesa RiceGosh Avril that's a very beautiful of you very beautiful to listen to.i love every bit of the song
  • Carmela from Las Piñas City, Philippinesthe first five times i heard this, i cried. not joking.
  • Megan from Stevenson, AlThis is beautiful!!! Makes me wan to cry:'(
  • Fabio from New Orleans, LaIt's about being physically parted. It's so beautiful. It's so well expressed. I just watched the video for the first time, and I can't stop crying.
  • Nate from Crystal Lake, Ilit could be taken as such. Avril, like so many others, has her own meanings to her songs, that doesnt mean that that's what they mean to everyone. in the video, you see an old man missing his dead wife, so yes, it is also about death.
  • Brittany from Townsville, AustraliaWow i neva new wat this song was about like i thought it was about someone dying. now i know the truth lol ha ha ha.
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