I never share anything this personal but I wrote this song about Ash (my wife) last night and wanted to share it all of you too so you know a little bit about what we've been going through.
The border closures in Australia and travel ban against Americans have kept her and I separated for almost 6 months... She's Australian stuck there and I'm a U.S. citizen stuck here. I wish I could say it's been easy, but in addition to being separated we have suffered a completely separate tragic loss... As I said it's difficult for me to share so much personal stuff here so I would just like to leave it at that.
After applying five times for an exemption to travel to Australia and getting denied over and over again, the government finally granted me it based on compassionate grounds. But then rather callously, they gave me the exemption less that 24 hours before the visa I held expired. Until I get another visa the exemption is useless.
Now we've applied twice for another visa since they denied the first one because of some technical issue with my application. Wait time is up to 6 months right now. If anyone knows anyone in the Aussie gov that can help me get there I'd appreciate it.
Anyways, I made the video today and added the lyrics so that you could understand my marbled mouth nonsensical performance and since these song lyrics are so important to me it seemed only fair to give you the context.
I'm working hard on a new record for y'all the final one that will end an era of King Dude music. Can't wait to share it with you next year.
Until we meet again, take care and thanks for listening.
TJ
28 сен 2024
