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00:00Austin City Limits presents a bold new voice in alternative music, Role Model.
00:23And indie rocker, MJ Lendrick.
00:30She lives the haven.
00:36She lives the haven.
00:46Thank you, Austin City Limits.
00:49This is Austin City Limits.
00:51She lives the haven.
01:00I'm so much of the back.
01:05We are all right.
01:06We are all right.
01:07Austin City Limits.
01:09All right, Austin City Limits.
01:10All right, Austin City.
01:12One, two, three, five.
01:14All right, all right, all right.
01:16Thank you very much.
01:1850 years of Austin City.
01:22Recorded live from Austin, Texas.
01:24It's Austin City Limits.
01:26Now, a singer-songwriter who blurs the lines between genres.
01:35Role Model.
01:37Dad's on the phone and he's lecturing me.
01:40About a girl that he met back when he was 19.
01:43It's never gonna work cause the puzzle won't be.
01:47Hey!
01:48Head out the window.
01:51Sweat on the pillow.
01:54It's been keeping me up at night.
01:56Cause this is what love feels like, all right.
01:59Seems like a show that it keeps getting colder.
02:05But, babe, I was raised in a cold.
02:09Just wish I could do what I'm told.
02:12Oh, now.
02:13Dad's on the phone and he's lecturing me.
02:16About a girl that he met back when he was 19.
02:19It's never gonna work cause the puzzle won't be.
02:23Hey!
02:24Son of a gun, but I know when he's right.
02:28Cause the girl that I love never treated me nice.
02:31Writing's on the wall, I pretend I can't read.
02:36Oh, you're forgetting me.
02:42Losing my patience.
02:45Confusing the waitress.
02:48And asking way too much.
02:51Why am I still in love?
02:54Somebody who leaves me.
02:56Hey!
02:57Way too easy.
02:59She said, honey, you'll be all right.
03:03She gets paid to be nice.
03:06Oh, hell.
03:07Dad's on the phone and he's lecturing me.
03:10About a girl that he met back when he was 19.
03:13It's never gonna work cause the puzzle won't be.
03:16He's a son of a gun, but I know that he's right.
03:22Cause the girl that I love never treated me nice.
03:25Writing's on the wall, I pretend I can't read.
03:29Ooh, you're forgetting me.
03:31Oh, you're forgetting me
03:42Oh, you're forgetting me
03:53Dad's on the phone and he's lecturing me
03:56But a girl that he met back when he was 19
03:59It's never gonna work cause the puzzle won't piece
04:03Hey, nah, nah, nah
04:05Son of a gun, but I know that he's right
04:07Girl that I love never treated me nice
04:11Writers on the wall, I pretend you can't read
04:15Oh, you're forgetting me
04:18Woo!
04:22Woo!
04:26Oh, hello, Austin, you beautiful people
04:29I'm very grateful to be on the stage
04:36This is a very legendary stage
04:38And I am lucky to be here
04:41In a beautiful city
04:43We was bragging about investments
04:51She was talking about a Zen pic
04:53And the dinner had a guest list
04:55Guess it's hell on earth
04:57He told us she seemed unstable
04:59She got up and left the table
05:01Guess it's hard to find an angel
05:03When it's hell on earth
05:05Hell on earth
05:07Yeah!
05:13Sometimes it gets so hard to listen
05:16They sent foot back to the kitchen
05:18Said they wanted something different
05:20Could you get it much worse?
05:22Can't get dinner as a favor
05:24But it's feeling more like labor
05:26So I told them, see you later
05:28Gave them hell on earth
05:30Well, I tried my best tonight
05:35Don't know what for
05:38I'll click my ears three times
05:43We're not in Kansas anymore
05:45Come on!
05:46Take me home
05:51Take me home
05:57Well, it's the way they never struggle
06:10Bills have always gotten paid
06:12Pockets never been in trouble
06:14Unapplauded and unashamed
06:16I'm the child and my mother
06:18New England, born and raised
06:21Where the common sense is coming
06:22As a nose job in LA
06:24Well, I tried my best tonight
06:29Don't know what for
06:32I passed the welcome sign
06:37As I'm walking out the door
06:40Take me home
06:43Hey!
06:48Take me home
06:51I know it's time to go
07:01When there's cocaine on the nose
07:03And they start asking who you know
07:05At the table, grab my coat
07:07Skip the goodbyes in the road
07:09I swear they wouldn't even notice
07:12If I never even show
07:13So, take me home
07:16Take me home
07:18Take me home
07:20Take me home
07:22Take me home
07:24Take me home
07:26Take me home
07:28Take me home
07:30Take me home
07:32Take me home
07:34Take me home
07:36Take me home
07:38Take me home
07:40Take me home
07:42Take me home. Take me home. Take me home. Take me home.
08:00I have a song of mine that I literally cannot remember the words there's too many.
08:06And so I simply don't perform it.
08:08But it's one of my favorite songs ever.
08:15And so I have to write down, you know, I'd rather read it from a book.
08:19I feel like that's more aesthetically cool than me, like, on my phone or something.
08:24I don't know. This feels cooler than a teleprompter.
08:31So I wrote it. Or maybe I'll just tell you guys a little story or something.
08:34I'll read you a little bedtime story.
08:39This one is called Something, Somehow, Someday.
09:40No!
09:42I believe they're meant to be
09:48Something, somehow, someday
09:54Yes
09:58He's a Ford truck, door shut, runs from conversation
10:05She's an open ear, souvenir, reads the situation
10:09He's a no-thought record shop, slutty on occasion
10:13She's a night in Rome
10:16He's a piece of work, dirty shirt, needs evaluation
10:21She's a pinkie's up, pixie cut with plenty of motivation
10:25He's a whiskey drinker, barely thinking, got no destination
10:29She's a plane ride home
10:32And I believe they're meant to be
10:40Something, somehow, someday
10:46Yes, I believe they're meant to be
10:56Something, somehow, someday
11:02Yes, I believe they're meant to be
11:04Yes, I believe they're meant to be
11:06Something, somehow, someday
11:08Something, somehow, someday
11:18Yes, I believe they're meant to be
11:24Something, somehow, someday
11:34Yes, I believe they're meant to be
11:40They're meant to be
11:42They're meant to be
11:44Something, somehow, someday
11:48Yes, I believe they're meant to be
11:50Something, somehow, someday
11:52Yes, it's clear to me
11:54They're meant to be
11:56Something, somehow, someday
12:12They're meant to be
12:16Something, somehow, someday
12:18I just want to dance a little bit.
12:48I just want to dance a little bit.
13:18I just want to dance a little bit.
13:48I just want to dance a little bit.
14:18I just want to dance a little bit.
14:48You get by nine to five in the city, make your rent with no money to spare.
14:56I just want to dance a little bit.
15:04I just want to dance a little bit.
15:12I just want to dance a little bit.
15:14I just want to dance a little bit.
15:22I just want to dance a little bit.
15:24I just want to dance a little bit.
15:32I just want to dance a little bit.
15:42I just want to dance a little bit.
15:51I just want to dance a little bit.
16:01I just want to dance a little bit.
16:09I just want to dance a little bit.
16:17I just want to dance a little bit.
16:19I just want to dance a little bit.
16:27I just want to dance a little bit.
16:35I just want to dance a little bit.
16:43I just want to dance a little bit.
16:51I just want to dance a little bit.
16:59I just want to dance a little bit.
17:07I just want to dance a little bit.
17:09I just want to dance a little bit.
17:38Yes, I am and I always will
17:44Yes, I am and I always will
17:48Be some protector
17:56Holding on from a distance
18:00But never one untrue
18:06No, does he love you any different?
18:13Am I still sounding like a fool?
18:18Why?
18:20Yes, I am and I always will
18:26Yes, I am and I always will
18:30Yes, I am and I always will
18:36Be some protector
18:42Be some protector
18:48To you
19:01To you
19:13To you
19:21Yeah, yeah
19:23Alright
19:24Am I guilty? Am I sorry? Do I miss you at the party? Am I dragging this forever? Am I thinking about September?
19:54Am I in reservations? Am I lying to my mother? Am I lying to my mother? And someday I'll find another
20:04Yes, I am and I always will
20:07Yes, I am and I always will
20:10Yes, I am and I always will
20:13Yes, I am and I always will
20:17Yes, I am and I always will
20:19Be sun protective
20:49Be sun protector
21:19Oh, yeah!
21:24Well, I'm in Sally at a late night dot bar
21:29She don't dance, but she downs her drinks
21:33I threw a friend, she's a born-again wild card
21:37She was telling me wild things
21:41She was telling me wild things
21:45Just down the street past the 7-Eleven
21:49Just close enough that I spent the night
21:53She grabbed my hand at the intersection
21:57I spilled my guts at the red light
22:01Silent
22:03That feeling's coming around
22:07Please don't go falling in love
22:11And disappear when the wine comes out
22:15Yeah!
22:17Sally
22:19I'll buy a couple of rounds
22:23Don't let me think I'm not
22:27And disappear when the wine comes out
22:31Oh!
22:35Sally!
22:37Well, I open up while she's flipping through pages
22:45Getting lonely as the days get dark
22:49If you're bored and your mind starts changing
22:53Maybe just give me a little stop
22:57I
22:59See the glass in your eyes
23:01Just trying to keep it alive
23:05Crying out loud
23:07Oh!
23:08Sally
23:09That feeling's coming around
23:13Please don't go falling in love
23:17And disappear when the wine comes out
23:23Woo!
23:24Sally!
23:25I'll buy a couple of rounds
23:27I'll buy a couple of rounds
23:29Don't let me think I'm not
23:31And disappear when the wine comes out
23:35Oh!
23:36Here we go again
23:37I'm falling head first
23:38Angles hit the two-step
23:39Sally makes my head hurt
23:40Right through the grapevine
23:41She can be a diva
23:43Going like Minnesota
23:45Hotter than a diva
23:46Hotter than a diva
23:47I'll say
23:55Here we go again
23:56I'm falling head first
23:57Angles hit the two-step
23:58Sally makes my head hurt
23:59Right through the grapevine
24:00She can be a diva
24:01Going like Minnesota
24:02Hotter than a diva
24:03I'll say
24:04Here we go again
24:05I'm falling head first
24:06Sally makes my head hurt
24:07Right through the grapevine
24:08She can be a diva
25:09I find it fascinating because it's such a positive, optimistic spin on what I feel like most of humanity wouldn't necessarily put a positive spin on.
25:33It would be more, let's just wallow in the feelings.
25:36I feel like I'm always on the edge of just slipping down that rabbit hole of just like, one negative thought could just send me into this like spiral.
25:49I feel like it's I'm like I ride this fence and I put in so much effort every day to like not do
25:58that and to have a positive outlook um because it's easy for me to just spin like that out of
26:07control and just think everything is going wrong or whatever um and so I do I do like put in effort
26:17and like I do journal and when I journal I'm like I hit the positive things usually to I just I don't
26:27I think wallowing in something or like looking back in anger in any way is just would it just
26:34shoots me down a spiral that I don't need to go down any understand I get that yeah sure next a
26:40newcomer with an old soul and ragged rock sensibility MJ Lenderman
26:45birds against a heavy wind that wins in the end one of these days with shorts full of sand
26:58one of these days you'll kill a man for asking a question you don't understand
27:12some have passion while some have purpose you have sneaking backstage to hound the girls in the circus
27:32you've opened the bible in a public place you've opened the bible to the very first page
28:01and one of these days it will all end your tired approach to original sense
28:16you've been betting on horses named johnny come lately you've been
28:45high on the hog and your dog seems to hate you once was a baby and now a jerk standing close to the fire
29:02man in fireworks
29:05he wants a perfect little baby who's now a jerk standing close to the fire
29:16man in fireworks
29:21man in fireworks
29:28him in fireworks
29:34wd
29:51You can put your clothes back on
30:00She's leaving you
30:03No time to apologize
30:08For the things you do
30:12Go rent a Ferrari
30:17Save the blues
30:22Believe in fact
30:26It was the second coming
30:29It falls apart
30:36We all got work to do
30:39It gets dark
30:45We all got work to do
30:48She's leaving
30:54But she's leaving
31:03You said Vegas looks beautiful at night
31:15And it's not about the money
31:23You're just like the lights
31:26Though you know what is implied
31:33When your room is free
31:36You're feeling lucky
31:43It falls apart
31:50We all got work to do
31:53It gets dark
31:59We all got work to do
32:02She's leaving
32:08She's leaving
32:13She's leaving
32:17And it's not about the money
32:21guitar solo
32:51guitar solo
33:21It's a car, we all got work to do
33:25It gets dark, we all got work to do
33:35She's sleeping
33:40She's sleeping
33:50She's sleeping
33:58She's sleeping
34:08She's sleeping
34:10She's sleeping
34:12She's sleeping
34:46So you say I've got a funny face
34:55Well, it makes me money
35:10So you say I've wasted my life away
35:15Well, I've got a picture of one in Buffalo
35:23And a wristwatch that's encompassing a cell phone
35:31And a wristwatch that tells me I'm all alone
35:41So you say I've got a picture of one in Buffalo
35:48And a wristwatch that tells me I'm all alone
35:50So you say I'm all alone
35:52I'd still take your amazing grace
36:22I'd give all my money
36:25And I'd still take your pretty face
36:38Cause I got my houseboat dock at the hemboat dock
36:46And a wristwatch that's a pocket knife
36:51And a megaphone
36:53And a wristwatch that tells me I'm on my own
37:04And a wristwatch that tells me I'm on my own
37:14guitar solo
37:16guitar solo
37:19guitar solo
37:22guitar solo
37:23guitar solo
37:25guitar solo
37:26guitar solo
37:29guitar solo
37:30guitar solo
37:33guitar solo
37:34guitar solo
37:35guitar solo
38:05guitar solo
38:35guitar solo
39:05Some say
39:09The distance grows the heart
39:16But I know
39:18Sometimes we just drift apart
39:25Everybody's walking in tunes
39:30Leaving Noah's heart
39:34It's a Sunday at the water park
39:43We sat under a half-assed McDonald's flat
40:02But they're a half-assed McDonald's flat
40:09Broken birds tumble fast
40:16Past my window
40:18And you don't know
40:22And you don't know
40:22The shape I'm in
40:27guitar solo
40:32And you don't know
40:35Yeah, I know
40:37And you don't know
40:40And you don't know
40:41Bunches and holes
40:45Punching holes
40:55In a hotel room
41:01Singing all you had to do
41:08Was be nice
41:11Whoa, whoa, whoa
41:14Be nice
41:15To me
41:20Clarinet
41:31Singing it's lonesome
41:37Dark wall
41:38Clarinet
41:48Singing it's lonesome
41:54Dark wall
41:55What else can you say
41:59To help a friend of a broken home
42:04When you don't know
42:08To shave my bed
42:12You don't
42:16You don't
42:28You don't
42:30You don't
42:32You don't
42:34Can't you
42:34You don't
42:36Do
42:36You don't
43:06Thank you, guys.
46:58Loneliness is simple
47:02Not much else is
47:07Her love for me is real
47:11She gives what she has to give
47:16She gave me wings
47:22But I caught blame
47:25And I think
47:27I might be
47:29Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock
47:33Alone at heaven's door tonight
47:37Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock
47:46Yeah
47:47guitar solo
48:17guitar solo
48:47guitar solo
49:17guitar solo
49:47guitar solo
50:17appreciate you guys
50:22thank you
50:25I actually think I'm pretty optimistic
50:50I mean I think I'm cynical in some ways
50:53but you know on a day-to-day basis
50:57I feel like I'm the more optimistic person in the group
51:05like maybe even a stupid way
51:08but yeah I don't know
51:11I think it's hard not to be cynical in the world view goes and living in America
51:21and yeah the way that society has progressed over the years and the world that I've grown up in is
51:32it's easy I mean it's hard to be optimistic about you know where the world is headed I guess
51:40I think the guitar entered my life when I was like seven
51:45and it's been something I've been doing well the lessons started when I think I was seven or eight
51:56and I took them with my best friend growing up we took them together so I always had somebody to play with
52:04and we were on this kind of journey together and we had a drum set too so one of us would play drums and the other would play guitar and we'd switch back and forth and so we learned you know how to make music together at a super young age and we're really lucky for that
52:24and we'll see you next time
52:54and we'll see you next time
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