“Let Me Go,” a breakup-and-makeup ballad written and performed with Kroeger, showcases an emotionally mature and voiced Lavigne.

I again appealed to Lavigne, and he joined in entreating them to spare me.

We all stopped, and Lavigne, one of the voyageurs, left the canoe to his comrades and took the weapon from my hand.

But Lavigne had disappeared and poor Moralle lay motionless on the opposite bank, apparently dead.

For a minute or more Lavigne searched the ground in the vicinity, creeping here and there on all-fours.

They struck at me with their guns, and Lavigne caught some of the blows, and joined me in entreating for my safety.