All I Ask for Anymore Is More Trace Adkins Videos Like This

2 Oct 09

You have to wait three minutes. That’s when the people in the new Trace Adkins video start smiling, and I start crying.

I don’t know if it’s his rich baritone or the lyrics coming to life but almost every video Adkins makes has a way of bringing me to tears. Not just eyes-well-up-with-tears tears. But rolling-down-my-face-gasping-for-breath tears. “All I Ask for Anymore” is no exception.

The suspense the video creates doesn’t help. Because for the first few minutes, all you see are anxious people. Women, men, children. All getting out of their cars and heading for a chain link fence. It’s not until you see what they see — soldiers finally coming home from war — that the song takes on a whole new meaning. The guy in the song is not just some ordinary father bowing his head and thinking selfless thoughts. This is a soldier who is far, far from home who is begging the Lord to watch his wife and kids and to “let ‘em outlive me by a hundred years, let their laughter dry up all their tears, let ‘em love and be loved back like I have been.”

It’s human nature to pray for yourself when you’re young. Home runs, pickup trucks, good grades, money. And Adkins touches on all that. It’s when the realities of the grown-up world sink in that your prayers shift to be less about me, myself and I to being more about the ones you love. Like he sings, what mattered then kept changing every day. And the reveal toward the end of this video makes that point loud and clear. That what matters now, and all we ask for anymore, is for God to watch over everyone else.

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