Song
Daylight
Lover · 2019 · Track 18
Sole author
Written byTaylor Swift
Produced byTaylor Swift, Jack Antonoff
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- Come Back...Be Here / Daylight (Eras Tour, Sydney)
- tis the damn season / Daylight (Eras Tour, Edinburgh)
- this is me trying / Daylight (Eras Tour, Miami Gardens)
Redemption
Incidental
Identity & Self
A catalogue observation marking the Redemption theme in this song. The full reading will follow when Daylight is the discussion's seed song.
Personal
Bed
Incidental
Domestic Spaces
“Back and forth from New York, sneaking in your bed”
Personal
Smoke
Incidental
Fire & Destruction
“Clearing the air, I breathed in the smoke”
Personal
Shades of Red
Incidental
Colours
“I once believed love would be burning red, but it's golden”
Personal
the dawn light
“But it's golden, like daylight”
“I want auroras and sad prose” — the lakes
Readers catch the older sense of "auroras" as the dawn, Aurora being the goddess of morning light, and hear it reaching towards Daylight. The lakes wants auroras and sad prose; Daylight arrives at the golden morning light the earlier word anticipates.
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