'Send more money right away / is pretty much all she has to say'--Trace Adkins' 'I'm Tryin' (Music Video)
September 28th, 2007 by Glenn Sacks, MA for Fathers & Families
This gettin' up early, pulling double shifts / Gonna make an old man of me long before I ever get rich / But I'm tryin' / It's been two years since we've finalized / I still ain't used to puttin' ex in front of wife / But I'm tryin' / Send more money right away / is pretty much all she has to say when she calls these days / and don't you be late
Another good divorced dad song is Trace Adkins' I'm Tryin'--to watch the music video, click here. The lyrics are below.
In the picture, the father has just spent some nice time with his son, the ex-wife is coming to pick the son up, and she's ripping him away from his father and angrily criticizing her ex.
We'll put it in our divorced dad song collection, along with Toby Keith's Who's That Man?, Tim McGraw's Do You Want Fries With That?, and Sting's I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying, which was also later recorded by Toby Keith.
I'm Tryin'
Written by Chris Wallin, Jeffrey Steele and Anthony Smith
Sung by Trace Adkins
This gettin up early, pulling double shifts,
Gonna make an old man of me long before I ever get rich.
But I'm tryin
It's been two years since we've finalized,
I still ain't used to puttin ex in front of wife.
But I'm tryin.
Send more money right away, is pretty much all she has to say when she
Calls these days and don't you be late
But all I can do, is all I can do and I keep on tryin
And all I can be is all I can be and I keep on tryin
There's always a mountain in front of me,
Seems I'm always climbin and fallin and climbin
But I keep on tryin
I remember daddy sayin keep your eye on the ball, run like hell, play to win,
Get up when you fall
I'm tryin
Don't say nothin that you can't take back
Never do anything you might regret
No don't do that
Daddy I'm tryin
Know the difference between heaven and hell
Go easy on the bottle be hard on yourself
And I know he meant well
But all I can do, is all I can do and I keep on tryin
And all I can be is all I can be and I keep on tryin
There's always a mountain in front of me,
Seems I'm always climbin and fallin and climbin
But I keep on tryin
There's always a mountain in front of me
Seems I'm always climbin and stumblin
And then fallin'
And then climbin'
But I keep on tryin'
This gettin up early pullin double shifts
Gonna make an old man of me
Long before I ever get rich
But I'm tryin'
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September 28th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
More dads whining about their exes and their child support--boo hoo...
September 28th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Yeah, they should be grateful that they get to lose their kids and have to pay for the privaledge! And thank God their ex's get all the responsibility of being able to decide whether the dad has any rights to his own children, cos most men couldn't handle such a burden!
I can only hope you're being sarcastic
September 28th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
I guess tired of whining is nothing more then a damn user, only see men as ATM.
September 29th, 2007 at 2:23 am
I wonder if "Tired of Whining Men" has anything against whining women...there are plenty of them around:
I need more money..Sure, I am supposed to want equality, but let's face it: life is hard and men should just give me what I want...It is my choice and my choice alone - regardless of reality.
If I cheat on him, it is because he doesn't give me what I need...if he cheats on me it is because he is a bastard (and it has nothing to do with the fact that I haven't put out since we got married)...
I want the kids because damn it I am the mother...I should just go ahead and make up a few stories just to get rid of him.
We got divorced and I make more money then he does, but he certainly shouldn't be entitled to any sort of child support payments...after all...only men should pay child support.
I could go on...
While it is true whining regardless of gender is annoying, underscoring bias (whether male-bias or female-bias) is never wrong. Feminists and masculinists should be working together to fix these problems.
September 29th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Lance, you've got it spot on there.
There's nothing wrong with focusing on one issue (as feminists do), the problem is is that feminists straight down oppose giving men equal rights to women (minus ifeminists, Cathy Young and few others)
NOW certainly has its priorities sorted, women's rights good, men's rights bad.
September 30th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Tired of Whining Men Says:
September 28th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
More dads whining about their exes and their child support--boo hoo...
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That a girl trivializing someone else’s pain shoes how humane you are and certainly wins you sympathy when you need a shoulder to cry on or an ear to twist.
Yep all is right in the world when men have to pay child support and if they do not they get their license to drive suspended and they risk get jailed. Conversely when the man does not get his mandated visitation she does not have her license suspended or risk being jailed. By the way he certainly will not be able to pay if he has no transportation to work, another well thought out law by our legislators. Hummmmm GREAT equal protection under the law.
October 5th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
And thus it shall ALWAYS be! Women will always get the kids, the guy's house/property/wallet ad nauseam. Men will always be the Wallet-with-feet, the handcuffed-by-the-cops abuser-even-if-she-holds-the-bloody-club as he lies there bleedind and she hasn't a mark on her, and the rebuffed father when it coms to visitation. Do you want to know why? Because men will NEVER fight back! Al-Females will use and abuse the system to use and abuse their exes because they have no sense of honor or chivalry-much like their Al-Qaeda counterparts that our soldiers are forced to fight with their hands tied behind their backs or be court-martialed! Notice the similarities? Our soldiers need free-rein to fight Al-Qaeda, and we men need to stop being doormats and use the same rules-of-engagement to fight Al-Females. The only thing necesssary for evil to triumph (Al-Qaeda/Al-Females) is for good men to do nothing!
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