I used to sound way different like I used to go for such a more different sound like a more poppy sound I guess not like this deep dark like kind of sound I eventually just started kind of using the baritone that I discovered within me to my advantage and just implementing it into my art [Music] going back when I wrote daylight I just moved to Los Angeles I was in the studio and I was working on a different song actually and I started messing around on piano just writing a different idea during a break that
I took the chorus just kind of came out I started singing I was just like dang that's that's pretty good telling myself I won't go over there oh but I know that I won't care trying to wash away all the blood of spirit this lust is a burden that we both share to Sinners can atone from a long prayer Souls tied in a twine by our pride and guilt like telling yourself you won't go there it's just that darkness that can inherit in your life if you give into certain things and you have these certain
Temptations and then the next line is kind of your realization of like oh but I know that I won't care because I've done it before I've messed up before like I'm not perfect but it's this like constant like uphill battle to the daylight I guess there's darkness in the distance from the way that I've been living but I know I can't resist it at this point after verse one person's already given into that thing that they know that they shouldn't have like visually they see like this black cloud like they see the darkness coming and
it's infiltrating their life 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 hurting all of our sins from the daylight from the daylight running from the daylight from the daylight running from the daylight oh I love it and I hate it at the same time the chorus is really the climax in the story in daylight like I wrote it from such a vulnerable place in my heart I was giving Into Darkness
that grew in my life like a root beneath a tree I knew I should be giving more into the light telling myself it's the last time can you spell it in Mercy that you might find thumb down on my knees again deep down way down lord I try it try to follow your life but it's night time please don't leave me in the end and the way I wrote it it's me speaking to God essentially saying like I'm sorry I know I need to get away from this thing and I'm trying my best is there
any Mercy that you can find to spare me yeah it's just my cry out just like can't do this by myself this darkness in the distance I'm begging for forgiveness but I know I'm my resistance [Applause] a lot of the times it's super hard to forgive ourselves even after we've tried so hard to get that forgiveness and when we receive it or when we're trying to receive it we know that we're going to resist the Forgiveness because of all the shame all the guilt all the baggage that came with it and just how hard we
are on ourselves rather than letting it go and just casting your cares away this is something that we're all dealing with like we're all battling this thing knowing what's right and our goal
