David Kushner’s “Daylight” Lyrics Meaning

David Kushner, who hails from Chicago, is one of the new brand of musician who owes his come-up directly to TikTok virality and more specifically his breakthrough 2022 track “Miserable Man”. Since then he’s dropped an EP, “Footprints I Found”, as well as a few other singles which didn’t make any noise. 

But now “Daylight”, which was officially released on 14 April 2023 by Kushner in conjunction with the Miserable Music Group, has generated notable buzz after first being teased in late January. 

For instance, in being likened to Hozier, David was able to secure one of said singer’s regular collaborators, Rob Kirwan, to produce this track. This is the same Rob Kirwan who produced Hozier’s 2013 global hit song, “Take Me To Church“.

Furthermore, “Daylight” enjoyed a massive chart-topping debut on Spotify.

“Daylight” Credits

“Daylight” was written by Kushner alongside Josh Bruce Williams, Hayd and Sarcastic Sounds – had a strong.

The Lyrics

As implied by David Kushner in explaining the motif behind this track, it was inspired by the biblical symbolism behind light and dark. 

Within such a context, the former represents righteousness, while being encased in the latter is symbolic of living a sinful life. And relatedly he also went on to state that his natural “desire”, if you will, is “for light”, but instead he finds himself “always turning towards the darkness”. 

In fact that concept is also touched upon in the Good Book, by Paul for instance, who implied that a desire to do right doesn’t always manifest in action. Or as Jesus said, the spirit may be willing to walk the higher ground, but we rather tend to conversely give in to fleshly desires.

And so it is with this song, sort of. Or rather, let’s say that the lyrical emphasis is really placed on the vocalist and addressee “running from the daylight”, i.e. choosing to live in metaphorical darkness. Or as more specifically put forth in the first verse, they are “two sinners” engaged in “lust”. 

So the implication is that the vocalist has concluded that this romance apparently is not supposed to be.  And going back to other symbolism found in the first verse, it may be that he is trying to forsake a playa lifestyle.

So as insinuated in the second verse, the vocalist is now making an effort to, most simply put, repent. But again, the pleasure he’s deriving from this relationship has proven too powerful to walk away from. 

So as it currently stands, David is in a love/hate predicament with the addressee. That is to say that he obviously enjoys their relationship on a physical level but internally feels that the two of them messing around with each other isn’t kosher.

“Oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time
You and I drink the poison from the same vine
Oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time
Hidin’ all of our sins from the daylight
From the daylight, runnin’ from thе daylight
From the daylight, runnin’ from the daylight
Oh, I love it and I hatе it at the same time”