The National – Trouble Will Find Me
2013
The National releases albums, and I recognize each time that I need not hurry. My relationship with the album will be a growing entity, like a first meeting where attraction is met with a certain complex uncomfortableness. I would describe “Trouble Will Find Me” exactly like that interaction, only it’s sometime later and the driving force is balanced with careful introspection. It’s beautiful, dark, hopeful, and disturbing in parallel ripples of atmospheric melodies and Matt Berninger’s brooding baritone. I’ve found myself in an almost daydream state with this album swirling in my head, and it’s been some time since I’ve paid this much attention to lyrics, which are incredibly creative and moving…..
I have only two emotions,
careful fear and dead devotion.
I can’t get the balance right,
with all my marbles in the fight.
I see all the ones I went for,
all the things I had it in for.
I won’t cry until I hear,
because I was not supposed to be here.
Everything I love is on the table.
Everything I love is out to sea.