effect and cause

Jack White

I guess you have to have a problem
if you want to vent a contraption
But you cause a train wreck
then you put me in traction
Well first came an action, then a reaction
But you can switch around for your own satisfaction
Well you burnt my house down
then got mad at my reaction
Well in every complicated situation of the Human Relation
Makin sense of it all takes a whole lot of concentration
Well you can't blame a baby for her pregnant ma
And if theres one of these unavoidable laws
It's that you just can't take the effect
and make it the cause (no!)

Well you can't take the effect and make it the cause
I didn't rob a bank because you made up the law
Blame me for robbin' Peter, but don't you blame Paul
Can't take the effect and make it the cause

I ain't the reason that you gave me no reason
to return your calls
You built a house of cards
and got shocked when you saw them fall
Well I ain't sayin' I'm innocent, in fact the reverse
But if you're headed to the grave
you don't blame the hearse
You're like a little girl yelling at her bother
cause you lost his ball

Well you keep blaming me for what you did
but that ain't all
The way you clean up a wreck
is enough to give one pause
Well you seem to forget just how this all started
I'm reactin to you because you left me broken hearted
See you just can't take the effect and make it the cause

Well you can't take the effect and make it the cause
I didn't rob a bank because you made up the law
Blame me for robbin' Peter, but don't you blame Paul
Can't take the effect and make it the cause