The Grace (song)

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The Grace is a song written by Canadian recording artist and producer Daniel Victor in August 2005 and appears on the Neverending White Lights' debut album, Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies. The song was written with the intent of using Canadian singer/performer Dallas Green (of Alexisonfire) as the featured vocalist. In a last minute attempt to lift the sound of the album, Victor came up with "The Grace" during a late night writing session, only a month before the album went into stores.^{[citation needed]} After capturing Dallas Green's vocal parts in Toronto, Ontario, the song was promptly mixed and released in Canada. As the first single from the album, it received extensive radio play across the country, eventually making #3 on Rock Radio and #1 the Rock Audience Chart. It also reached #1 on many popular radio station countdowns including Edge 102 in Toronto (for 2 weeks).

The music video, which is a cinematic blue-tinged love story between a man (played by Victor) and a fallen angel (played by musician Emm Gryner), hit #1 on MuchMusic in April 2006, and on MuchMoreMusic for two weeks that same month. "The Grace" essentially launched Neverending White Lights into the Canadian spotlight.

Every instrument and part in the song was performed and recorded by Daniel Victor in his home studio in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Lyrically it deals with the idea of suicide and the struggle to find ones real purpose and place on this earth. Themes of life and death are the main focus of Victor's debut album, and this song is no exception. It's original title was "The Grace of a Happy Death".^{[citation needed]}