Graceless

The National · Trouble Will Find Me [2013]

Graceless

Is there a powder to erase this?

Is it dissolvable and tasteless?

You can't imagine how I hate this

Graceless



I'm trying, but I'm graceless

Don't have the sunny side to face this

I am invisible and weightless

You can't imagine how I hate this

Graceless



I'm trying, but I've gone

Through the glass again

Just come and find me

God loves everybody, don't remind me

I took the medicine when I went missing

Just let me hear your voice, just let me listen



Graceless

I figured out how to be faithless

But it will be a sheme to waste this

You can't imagine how I hate this

Graceless



I'm trying, but I've gone

Through the glass again

Just come and find me

God loves everybody, don't remind me

I took the medicine and I went missing

Just let me hear your voice, just let me listen



All of my thoughts of you

Bullets through rock and through

Come apart at the seams

Now I know what dying means



I am not my rosy self

Left my roses on my shelf

Take the wild ones, they're my favorites

It's the side effects that save us



Grace

Put the flowers you find in a vase

If you're dead in the mind it will brighten the place

Don't let them die on the vine, it's a waste

Grace



There's a science to walking through windows

There's a science to walking through windows

There's a science to walking through windows

There's a science to walking through windows without you



All of my thoughts of you

Bullets through rock and through

Come apart at the seams

Now I know what dying means



I am not my rosy self

Left my roses on my shelf

Take the wild ones, they're my favorites

It's the side effects that save us



Grace

Put the flowers you find in a vase

If you're dead in the mind it will brighten the base

Don't let them die on the vine, it's a waste

Grace



Grace

Put the flowers you find in a vase

If you're dead in the mind it will brighten the base

Don't let them die on the vine, it's a waste

Grace

Graceless

"Graceless" is a standout track from The National's 2013 album *Trouble Will Find Me*, continuing the band's signature blend of reverb-drenched guitars and introspective lyricism. Released during a period of significant artistic evolution, the song exemplifies the group's ability to weave personal vulnerability with atmospheric soundscapes. It features the characteristic layered vocals and driving rhythms that defined their work on the preceding *High Violet* and subsequent releases. The recording captures the raw emotional intensity typical of the indie rock genre in the early 2010s, serving as a poignant reflection on the themes of relationship strain and self-double that permeate the album's catalogue.