Avril Lavigne has shared an emotional message to fans, explaining how music helped her through the worst time of her life.
The message was accompanied with the promise to release a comeback single this month. The track is called “Head Above Water” and it came from a particularly difficult place. She said about the track:
“It is also the first song I wrote from my bed during one of the scariest moments of my life. I had accepted death and could feel my body shutting down. I felt like I was drowning. Like I was going under water and I just needed to come up for air.”
“Like I was in a river being pulled in a current. Unable to breathe. Praying to God for Him to help me just keep my head above the water. To help me see through the stormy weather. I grew closer to Him. My mother held me. In her arms, I wrote the first song that I am releasing to tell my story.”
She added: “I later met a beautiful soul, Travis Clark, and we sat down at the piano and sculpted the rest of the song. Then I took it to the genius, Stephan Moccio and love what he did to the music.”
In her message, she also explained the struggle writing music during her fight with Lyme Disease and admitted that it was the music which gave her the strength to keep on fighting.
“Five years have gone by since I released my last album,” Lavigne wrote. “I spent the last few years at home sick fighting Lyme Disease. Those were the worst years of my life as I went through both physical and emotional battles. I was able to turn that fight into music I’m really proud of. I wrote songs in my bed and on the couch and recorded there mostly as well. Words and lyrics that were so true to my experience came pouring out of me effortlessly.
“Truly… by keeping my spirits up, having goals to reach and a purpose to live for, my music helped to heal me and keep me alive.”
Avril Lavigne’s new single ‘Head Above Water’ will be released September 19th.
