Effect and Cause lyrics

I guess you have to have a problem

If you want to invent a contraption

First you cause a train wreck

Then they put me in traction (Mmm)

Well, first came an action

And then a reaction

But you can't switch 'em 'round

For your own satisfaction

Well you burnt my house down

Then got mad

At my reaction

Well in every complicated situation

Of human relation

Makin' sense of it all

Takes a whole lotta concentration (Mmm)

Well you can't blame a baby

For her pregnant ma

And if there's one of these unavoidable laws

It's that you can't just 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 call

You built a house of cards

And got shocked when you saw them fall (yea... yea)

Well i ain't saying I'm innocent

In fact the reverse

But if your headed to the grave

You don't blame the hearse

You're like a little girl yellin' at her brother

Cause you lost his ball (yea)

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 (yes)

Well, you seem to forget just how this song started

I'm reactin' to you

Because you left me brokenhearted

See you just can't just 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