Have you ever tried to talk to your unbelieving friends about sin? They might bat you away with ‘But humans are innately good, aren’t they?’, or ‘What’s right for you doesn’t have to be right for me’. Well, David Kushner’s new song Daylight can help open up this conversation for you.
The 22-year-old American is relatively new to fame. It came quickly last year, after he released tracks that went viral on social media platform TikTok. Daylight, his newest release, has references to sin, God and forgiveness and yet somehow, at the time of writing, it’s sitting at number two in the UK charts and putting up a good fight for the top spot. How is this possible?
Upon first listening, I was surprised at how much the lyrics resonated. They discuss the familiar, frustrating struggle of trying to resist doing the wrong thing but being unable to. In just the opening verse, he mentions battling ‘lust’, and ‘pride’, saying, ‘I know I can’t resist’. Then the catchy chorus comes in:
The draw of darkness: why horror fascinates us
One should never watch anything that wounds one’s conscience; Romans 14:23 tells us there are terrible consequences of acting against …