Avril Lavigne When You're Gone

"When You're Gone" is a song written by Canadian singer Avril Lavigne and Butch Walker. It was written for Lavigne's 2007 album The Best Damn Thing. It was co-written and produced by Butch Walker and released as the album's second single on June 19, 2007.

Avril Lavigne has said the song "is about being with someone you love, and you have to say goodbye, and all the little things you miss about them". The song may have been inspired by Lavigne's ex-husband, Deryck Whibley, although in an interview in Northern Ireland with The Belfast Telegraph she did not confirm this. According to her, she did not intend the song to be a love song, but she was writing a slow song and the process brought out "all that emotional stuff" in her. "It's not cheesy, because I wrote it", she said. "If I was older, a professional writer coming up with all that, that would be lame."

Billboard magazine describes the song as "a power ballad with a piano and synth introduction". Composer Rob Mathes orchestrated the song with genuine string section, although the brief opening note, before the piano came in, was on a synthesizer.

I always needed time on my own I never thought I'd need you there when I cry And the days feel like years when I'm alone And the bed where you lie is made up on your side

When you walk away I count the steps that you take Do you see how much I need you right now?

When you're gone The pieces of my heart are missing you When you're gone The face I came to know is missing too

When you're gone The words I need to hear to always get me through The day and make it ok I miss you

I've never felt this way before Everything that I do reminds me of you And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor And they smell just like you, I love the things that you do

When you walk away I count the steps that you take Do you see how much I need you right now?

When you're gone The pieces of my heart are missing you And when you're gone The face I came to know is missing too

And when you're gone The words I need to hear to always get me through The day and make it ok I miss you

We were made for each other Out here forever I know we were, yeah

And all I ever wanted was for you to know Everything I'd do, I'd give my heart and soul I can hardly breathe I need to feel you here with me, yeah

When you're gone The pieces of my heart are missing you And when you're gone The face I came to know is missing too

And when you're gone All the words I need to hear will always get me through The day and make it ok I miss you