
"When I'm Gone" does not necessarily mean being gone permanently. īrad Arnold wrote the song thinking of unconditional love, for when being removed from loved one by miles, or time, or other obstacles. I always knew it would do well," Harrell continued. "We were playing it in Europe and could immediately tell it was something special. "There are only a few songs we’ve written on the road and 'When I’m Gone' is the only hit we’ve written on the road," Todd Harrell said on the band's official website.

"When I'm Gone" was written by Brad Arnold, Matthew Roberts, Todd Harrell and Christopher Henderson.
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The song has been featured in the crime drama series Third Watch, in the episode "A Ticket Grows in Brooklyn" (2003). It spent one week atop the Top 40 Mainstream chart for one week on May 3, 2003, and also peaked at number three on the Adult Top 40 chart. The song also peaked at number two on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart almost reaching number one by one spot from Queens of the Stone Age's " No One Knows" on the issue dated February 15, 2003. The song also spent seventeen weeks atop the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart from November 2002 through March 2003, becoming one of the longest-running number-one singles on that chart.


It peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April 2003. It was released on September 23, 2002, as the lead single from their second album, Away from the Sun. " When I'm Gone" is a song by American rock band 3 Doors Down.
