Song For Stephen J. Maddox

from Song For Stephen J. Maddox/Your Extensive VHS Collection Survived The Fire (SINGLE) by Alex Salcido

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This is a song about finding out that not only did Andy Kaufman fake his death, but he's your long lost father and he wants nothing to do with you.

Now with long overdue 2nd verse

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That private detective was awful expensive
He just laughed under his breath
Took my money and away he went
But oh, there he found you
Where i least expected
Out in albuquerque
Live the joke till the bitter end

Are you a vapor in the heat?
Are you making up a ghost?
Or did you find somewhere
Somewhere nice and low to lay
Where the heat is kind and the phone don’t ever ring
Dad, in your normal voice
Why won’t you talk to me

$100,000 later
The joke ain't any better
Dad you were always alive
In my heart and in the archives
I have all the documents
I even have your last will and testament
Somewhere out there someone will listen
Till then Dad I love and miss ya

Are you a vapor in the heat?
Are you making up a ghost?
Or did you find somewhere
Somewhere nice and low to lay
Where the heat is kind and the phone don’t ever ring
Dad, in your normal voice
Why won’t you talk to me
Goddamn, in your normal voice.

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from Song For Stephen J. Maddox/Your Extensive VHS Collection Survived The Fire (SINGLE), released September 27, 2023

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Alex Salcido Cincinnati, Ohio

Alex Salcido is one half of indie rock-folk group The Harmed Brothers.

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