You Can't Pray a Lie is the debut studio album of American garage rock band Laughing Hyenas.

Trouser Press praised Larissa Strickland's guitar playing.

[6] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide called the album "a perfect coalescing of the violence of punk and the guitar stomp of the coming grunge sound.

"[4] Andrew Earles, in Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996, wrote that "many albums throughout rock-and-roll's history could carry the additional signifier 'hard-living set to music,' but few are as convincing as the albums made by Laughing Hyenas.

"[7] All tracks are written by Laughing HyenasAdapted from the You Can't Pray a Lie liner notes.