Daylight by Taylor Swift
Daylight by Taylor Swift

Daylight

Taylor Swift * Track #18 On Lover

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Daylight by Taylor Swift

Release Date
Fri Aug 23 2019
Performed by
Taylor Swift
Produced by
Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift
Writed by
Taylor Swift
About

In the final song on her album Lover, Taylor Swift sings about struggling through previous relationships, beginning to doubt her ability to find true love, until she meets someone who brightens her life in a new way.

She refers to being unlucky in love in the past, but when she meets her new partne...

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Daylight Lyrics

[Verse 1]
My love was as cruel as the cities I lived in
Everyone looked worse in the light
There are so many lines that I've crossed unforgiven
I'll tell you the truth but never goodbye

[Chorus]
I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you
I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you
I've been sleepin' so long in a twenty-year dark night
And now I see daylight, I only see daylight

[Verse 2]
Luck of the draw only draws the unlucky
And so I became the butt of the joke
I wounded the good and I trusted the wicked
Clearin' the air, I breathed in the smoke

[Pre-Chorus]
Maybe you ran with the wolves and refused to settle down
Maybe I've stormed out of every single room in this town
Threw out our cloaks and our daggers because it's morning now
It's brighter now, now

[Chorus]
I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you
(I can never look away)
I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you
(Things will never be the same)
I've been sleepin' so long in a twenty-year dark night
(Now I'm wide awake)
And now I see daylight (Daylight), I only see daylight (Daylight)

[Post-Chorus]
I only see daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight
I only see daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight

[Bridge]
And I can still see it all (In my mind)
All of you, all of me (Intertwined)
I once believed love would be (Black and white)
But it's golden (Golden)
And I can still see it all (In my head)
Back and forth from New York (Sneakin' in your bed)
I once believed love would be (Burnin' red)
But it's golden
Like daylight, like daylight
Like daylight, daylight

[Chorus]
I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you
(I can never look away)
And I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you
(Things will never be the same)
I've been sleepin' so long in a twenty-year dark night
(Now I'm wide awake)
And now I see daylight (I see daylight), I only see daylight (Ah)

[Post-Chorus]
I only see daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight
I only see daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight (Ah)
(And I can still see it all)
I only see daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight
(And I can still see it all, back and forth from New York)
I only see daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight
(I once believed love would be burning red)

[Outro]
Like daylight
It's golden like daylight
You gotta step into the daylight and let it go
Just let it go, let it go

[Spoken Outro]
I wanna be defined by the things that I love
Not the things I hate
Not the things I'm afraid of, I'm afraid of
Or the things that haunt me in the middle of the night
I, I just think that
You are what you love

Daylight Q&A

Who wrote Daylight's ?

Daylight was written by Taylor Swift.

Who produced Daylight's ?

Daylight was produced by Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift.

When did Taylor Swift release Daylight?

Taylor Swift released Daylight on Fri Aug 23 2019.

Did Swift hint at this song before its release?

Yes! Swift closed a 2019 piece for Elle Magazine with the following:

I’ve come to a realization that I need to be able to forgive myself for making the wrong choice, trusting the wrong person, or figuratively falling on my face in front of everyone. Step into the daylight and let it go.

What did Taylor say about the song in her Lover Enchanced Spotify campaign?

I chose ‘Daylight’ as the last song on the album because it recognises past damage and pain, but shows that it doesn’t have to define you. For me, the ‘reputation’ album seemed like nighttime. The ‘Lover’ album feels completely sunlit. I wrote this one alone.

What have the artists said about the song?

I wrote ‘Daylight’ about the idea that, reputation, for me, aesthetically and thematically, felt like a very, very long night of storms and volcanic eruptions, floods, hurricanes, hail, tornadoes, endless fire, an asteroid hit. And so it felt like trying to figure out what’s what throughout all that...

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How did this song perform on the Billboard charts?

During the week ending September 7, 2019, “Daylight” peaked at #89 on the Hot 100.

What has Swift said about the song's importance to the album?

Swift told Rolling Stone in August 2019 that she almost named the record after it:

It almost was [the title track]. I thought it might be a little bit too sentimental. […] I was kind of in my head referring to the album as Daylight for a while. But Lover, to me, was a more interesting title, more o...

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Has Swift performed the song live?

Yes!

Sirius XM

City of Lover (mashup with “Red”)

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