On hearing of the release of the song, ‘Way Too Pretty for Prison‘, I did a double take. The song deals with offering then considering hiring a killer in dealing with a cheater.
Although I understand the sentiment, even joking about ‘killing’ a cheater concerns me. There are some songs I find dangerous. This is one of those songs I consider dangerous.
My reasoning is that when you’re emotionally distraught and under the influence of drugs or alcohol, a song like this resonating in your head influences your thinking. It’s one thing to have a song stuck in your head, and quite another when the song deals with killing in dealing with cheating.
Look at it this way. When you’re hurt by an affair, and you listen over and over to a song like this while drinking, how are you going to react when you see the cheater?
Will you welcome them with open arms, blast them with hurtful words or secretly scheme ways of ‘getting them’?
I don’t find the topic entertaining or a good topic for a song. In dealing with affairs, I have an international audience. In many places around the world, such as India and nations in Africa, such options commonly happen. They don’t view cheating as a form of entertainment.
The pain of the affair needs attention. Attacking the cheater is not a workable solution to the problem.
This is a wrong-headed solution to a real problem. You may want to hurt them, yet hurting them doesn’t solve anything. It doesn’t bring your marriage back, it doesn’t bring healing.
Both you and the cheater are hurting. Each of your hurts needs attention of a different kind. The kind being peddled by Maren Morris and Miranda Lambert in this song won’t make your marriage stronger.
What you feed your head with impacts your marriage. When you head is filled with songs dealing out revenge, there’s no room for love, much less forgiveness.
You may be too pretty for prison, let’s hope that you choose a better solution. Her solution removes the symptom rather than dealing with the problem.
The cheater may fear her or the hired hit man when they should be fearing God.
A better solution is going through the Affair Recovery Workshop. It gives you ways of dealing with your situation. Instead of plans to hurt, it guides you with plans for healing.
Your hurt needs real solutions, not violent ones.
Keeping It Real,
Jeff
