Name: Deer in a Headlight by John Lingard in Best Indie/Pop/Folk - May 2020
Duration: 3 min 27 s
Description: https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/taxi-home-and-takeaway-ep/id1019417115

Best Indie/Pop/Folk - May 2020

Lyrics:

I laid the cards for you
It’s just a game you’ll lose
You pick the one that suits
And I’ll be soon to pull love up from under you
That part of love I knew

You lift me up in faith
And I handed down this grace
Whose hand will fold who knows?
A fool will find a way
To overlook mistakes and never follow through
If I ever felt this sake
I’d make your birthday cake
I’d have a reason to
That part of love I knew

Inside your house that day
Over your roof I flew
And on your couch that night
It only stayed that way
My, my impatience has a way of looking blue
I could not love you true
And that’s how love remains

Don’t think I betrayed you

I laid the cards for you
It’s just a game you’ll lose 
You pick the one that suits
And I’ll be soon to pull love up from under you
That part of love I knew

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio
© 2014 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Queen for Me

Over Your Roof

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Deer in a Headlight

Presenting a starkly minimalist ballad built solely around the warm, unpolished timbre of the upright piano. Stripped of extra rhythm or ornamentation, the focus is entirely on the intimate atmosphere of a late, sleepless night—the convenience store light, the sound of a plastic bag, and the deleted text. The song uses absence to find direction, suggesting that the pain and weakness felt in separation become the 'compass' guiding the way forward. It's a deeply introspective night song that embraces complex emotions with just one instrument and one voice. It's a quiet resolve: 'I won't say goodbye; tomorrow, I will be strong again.
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アップライトピアノの素朴で温かい響きだけで奏でられる、究極のミニマル・バラードです。リズムや装飾をそぎ落とし、コンビニの灯り、消した文字、そして会えない夜の静寂だけが響きます。この曲は、大切な人の不在が逆に心の奥底にある真実を映し出すとなる様を描いています。初めて知った痛みや弱ささえも抱きしめ、明日へと進む静かな決意。複雑な感情を、ただひとつの楽器と声で、親密に語りかける内省的な夜の歌です。『さよならはいわない、あしたまたつよくなる。』

最終電車のメロディー Him (Last Train Melody)

《我在風裡等你》是一首關於等待與釋懷的歌。
用最平靜的聲音，唱出時間、風與回憶的味道。
這不是悲傷的愛情，而是一段學會放手的溫柔故事。

吉他與笛子的聲音如同海風，輕輕吹過心底。
在每一個孤單的夜裡，風仍舊替他說著：「我還在這裡。」

🎵 風的方向，也是一種思念。

🎶 風格： 現代國語抒情 / 民謠流行
🗣️ 語言： 中文（台灣）
📍 地點： 台北，台灣 — 2025

#我在風裡等你 #Mandopop #台灣音樂 #華語抒情 #台北夜色 #台灣創作 #風的故事 #FolkPop

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《我在風裡等你》 (I Wait for You in the Wind) is a poetic Mandopop ballad about waiting, release, and quiet love.
A warm, reflective voice tells of time, wind, and memory — not heartbreak, but acceptance; not pain, but peace.

Guitars and bamboo flute drift like ocean wind through a Taipei night,
carrying words unspoken and feelings that never truly fade.

🎵 The wind’s direction is also a kind of longing.

🎶 Style: Modern Mandopop / Folk-Pop Ballad
🗣️ Language: Mandarin (Taiwan)
📍 Origin: Taipei, Taiwan — 2025

#我在風裡等你 #Mandopop #TaiwanMusic #ChinesePop #TaipeiSound #EmotionalBallad #FolkPop

《我在風裡等你》

We never planned to release this.
These songs were just for us, little moments that sat on hard drives and notebooks, never really meant to leave the room. But after a while, it started to feel wrong keeping them hidden.

The Collection isn’t a greatest hits or a polished project. It’s the story of where we’ve been, caught in all its rough edges and quiet mistakes. Some songs are years old, while others seem to have come out of nowhere. Together, they make up everything that’s brought us here.

We didn’t mean for this to be an album. But here we are.


Summer Air (LIVE)

So a bit about this track for all you unexpected but welcomed new listeners out there.

As the first verse goes, I wrote this song in 2015  - a while ago now I know! I had just worked for a summer in the US, and made some absolutely amazing friends. I honestly think Americans are friendlier than us cold staring Londoners, I felt such warmth from all the people I met that summer. I then returned to university, living in a mice infested house and cardboard walls that frosted up in the winter. I felt a vast contrast between summer in the US and winter back home. I had a lot of time to myself as a student, and after listening to Agape by Bear's Den (check it out) I became obsessed with tuning my guitar in Open D tuning. I came up with a riff that's not in this version, but earlier ones, and started singing, thinking about all the friends I'd made on the other side of the Atlantic, who I probably would never see again.  The words Don't You Forget came to mind.

Somehow I figured out how to layer guitars in garageband and came out with a creaky student room demo. I'd written songs before, but this felt like the actual first song I wrote. I instantly sent it to anyone who would listen, and within my friendship group it became somewhat of a cult classic that we'd often refrain on nights out.

It then faded for me, then in third year, I held a BBQ for some friends, and had a request to play this song. Reluctantly I blew the dust off my guitar and tuned up (or down in the case of open D), and outside, as the sun set on the day and on our time at university, standing on the precipice of everything after, in my back garden in Bristol I gave a rendition of this song that will stick with me for the rest of my life. Not just because of the poignancy of the time and of the chorus, but because, for a lot of the people around me, I could look at them and honestly feel comfortable, because I knew that what happened in the US wouldn't happen here, we were closer, knew each other better, and I knew we wouldn't lose each other. 

After that day I knew I had to re-release this song, but give it the justice in production it deserved. I took it to Natural Habitat studios where a very talented up and coming producing - Joey Walker - worked his magic, and we threw a load of guitars at it, and a banjo for good measure. I love Mark Knopfler's guitar playing, so that's where the country electric guitar comes from. 

Listening to the song for me, it brings back these memories, driving through old dusty roads in a pick up truck, dingy university rooms, good company, and I hope that it brings some of this nostalgic optimism to your ears like it still does for me. If you've read to the end of this then feel free to drop me a message, I'd love to hear from you. 


Regards,
Asher

Don't You Forget

Track 01 - Years Ago
Track 02 - Bittersweet
Track 03 - Elijah
Track 04 - Highway 16

Years Ago - EP

Bittersweet

Ruthless Cupid

Some Kind Of Perfect

Joshua Hyslop - Gentle Heart

Come My Way

So Sweet

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lyrics:
I've been chasing the pavement,
I've been sleeping with strangers,
dealing in danger,
passing by faces so cold

I've been running to places,
I've been broken and nameless,
hopeless and shamed,
I've never been so low

Zoom out to everything
Zoom into me
Zoom out to tragedy
Zoom into me

Can you hear me out there
Can you help me I'm scared
Can you lift me, can you give me
a sign
Can you beat back the night
Can you make things alright
Can you hold me, can you show me
the light

All alone in the basement
Where it's always the same and
Nothing can change and no one can see
me cry

I don't know how to face it
I don't know how to name it, know who to blame but
nothing seems alright

Zoom out to everything
Zoom into me
Zoom out to tragedy
Zoom in to me

Can you hear me out there
Can you help me I'm scared
Can you lift me, can you give me
a sign
Can you beat back the night
Can you make things alright
Can you hold me, can you show me
the light

(Humming)

Can you hear me out there
Can you help me I'm scared
Can you lift me, can you give me
a sign
Can you beat back the night
Can you make things alright
Can you hold me, can you show me
the light

Can You Hear Me

Ready Or Not

This is a song that at its very core captures a concoction of positive feelings; freedom, happiness, love.

It is a healthy emotional outpour from deep within the soul sparked by a desire for connection and authenticity.

I wrote it when I came back from touring Europe last year (2019) and was high on the elation of performing as well as going through some profoundly positive personal changes. 

I broke away from toxic people, spent more time with my family, was surfing more than ever,  busking a heap in the top park of Byron and re-carving a path that felt right for me.

I want this song to be an anthem for hope, optimism, compassion and being true to yourself.

Alive Again

Luke James Shaffer, Vol. 2 - EP

Oh Honey

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Bringing together an exceptionally compelling voice, powerfully memorable melodies and a true knack for crafting contemporary pop music, Australian singer/songwriter John Lingard is poised to make an indelible mark on the international music scene, starting with the release of a new EP in 2020. 

This as-yet-untitled project exemplifies the full flourishing of Lingard’s talent and experience, as he crafts music that has meaning and depth, yet which still possesses an uncanny pop sensibility both musically and rhythmically. It is a demonstration of John's commitment to his art, and his potential for success, as well as a vibrant new take on pop songwriting. 

The songs for the EP were created throughout much of 2018, and saw Lingard make two productive and inspiring trips to Nashville, where he met some important collaborators who helped bring his musical visions to fruition: songwriter/producer Ben Kramer (aka Old Sea Brigade) and producer Owen Lewis. They hit it off on his first foray to Music City USA in the summer of 2018, which generated the song Howling, and Lingard decided to go back to work on what would become the new EP in December.

Deer in a Headlight

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