I guess you have to have a problem If you want to invent a contraption first you cause a train wreck And then you put me in traction well first came an action And then a reaction But you can't switch around For your own satisfaction Well you burnt my house down Then got mad at my reaction
Well in every complicated situation There's a human relation Making sense of it all Take a whole lot of concentration Well you can blame the baby For her pregnant ma And if there's one of these unavoidable laws
It's just that you can't just take the effect and make it the cause
[Chorus:] 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 robbing peter 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 Well I ain't saying I'm innocent In fact the reverse But if your heading to the grave you Don't blame the hearse You're like a little girl yelling at her brother Cause you lost his ball
You keep blaming me for what you did And that ain't all The way you clean up the wreck Is enough to give one pause You seem to forget just how this song started I'm reacting to you because you left me broken hearted
See you just can't just take the effect and make it the cause