Format CD single Length 4:06 | Genre Country pop Label Warner Bros. Nashville | |
B-side "Stronger" (Live)
"If You're Gonna Fly Away" Released November 19, 2002 (2002-11-19) | ||
"When the Lights Go Down" is a song written by Rivers Rutherford, Jeffrey Steele and Craig Wiseman, and recorded by American country pop singer Faith Hill. It was released to country radio November 19, 2002 as the second single from her fifth studio album, Cry (2002). The second of three songs from the album promoted to country radio, "When the Lights Go Down" peaked at #26 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 2003. At the time, this was Hill's lowest position on the chart since "But I Will" peaked at #35 nearly a decade previously, however subsequent single "You're Still Here" would chart two positions lower later the same year.
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The song inspired the name of Hill's NBC concert special (taped in September 2002 and aired in November of that year), as well as her live DVD featuring performances from the same, released May 6, 2003. A Europe-exclusive CD single, released in February 2003, also contains a live version of "Stronger" taken from this concert.
Composition
"When the Lights Go Down" is a midtempo country pop-styled power ballad with a duration of four minutes and six seconds (4:06). It was written by Rivers Rutherford, Jeffrey Steele, and Craig Wiseman and was produced by Faith Hill and Dann Huff. According to the digital sheet music published on Musicnotes.com through Universal Music Publishing Group, it was originally composed and recorded in the key of F♯ major (published in the key of G major) and set in simple time (4
4) to a "moderately slow" tempo of 72 BPM. Hill's vocals range from G3–E5.
Music video
The video for "When the Lights Go Down" was directed by Gary Halvorson. It won the award for Hottest Female Video of the Year at the 2003 CMT Flameworthy Music Video Awards.
Track listings
Maxi CD single
- "When the Lights Go Down" - 4:06
- "Stronger" (Live) - 4:28
- "If You're Gonna Fly Away" - 3:48