God Can't Save Your Marriage

-- After listening to Whitney go on and on about marriage and God, I felt I had to say something about marriage and how it's not necessarily a religious relationship for all people. Maybe if people didn't view it that way, more marriages would actually survive. Ohhh, look at me being controversial. --

"God Can't Save Your Marriage"

You need to see a counselor
You need to see a therapist
You need to see somebody soon
And since you can't see Jesus
I'd find another place to make an appointment

I'm going to give you a heads up

God can't save your marriage

In case you haven't noticed
There are avalanches
There are tidal waves
There are genocides going onn

So I'm guessing
God doesn't have time
To get him
To start putting the seat down

You can pray, pray, pray
But what you should be doing
Is pay, pay, paying attention
To each other

Stop talking to God
And start talking to each other
Stop saying the Devil turned the both of you into assholes
When you know damn well
Time does that on its own

Stop whining to God
Stop whining to your saint of choice
Stop whining altogether
Because all you're doing is stalling

Whining is what people do to stall
When they already know the ending
Ain't gonna be a happy one

Stop ending arguments
So you can 'pray on it'
A prayer's not a band-aid
Do the prayer once you're done talking

Don't pray to hear each other
Just hear each other
Hearing is not a skill
Listening is not an ability

If you can't do it
It's because you don't want to
And if you don't want to
Then what is it you think
God's going to do for you?

God's not going to make her want to have kids
God's not going to make you stop being ambitious
God's not going to stop him from wanting to screw every idiot on the block
God's not going to stop her from having another go at the drugs
God's not going to clean up your mess

God can point you to the paper towels
But he ain't getting his hands dirty
In your mess

You know why rehab is bullshit?

Because they don't let you in
Unless you believe in a higher power

You gotta believe in yourself
Before you can believe there's something greater than you

And you gotta believe in this marriage
And you gotta believe it's worth saving
Before you can go giving it up to God

So no, I'm sorry to say
God can't save your marriage

Because if I recall your wedding vows
Saving this marriage
Is your job