I guess you have to have a probelm If you want to 'vent a contraption Well you cause a trainwreck And then you put me in traction First came an action And then a reaction But you can't switch around For your own satisfaction Well you burnt my house down And then got mad at my reaction
Well in every complicated situation There's a human relation To make sense of it all Take a whole lot of concentration Well you can't blame her baby For her pregnant ma And if there's one of these On her auto applause
It's just that you 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 Cos 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 Don't blame the hearse You're like a little girl yelling at her brother Cos 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 Cos you left me broken hearted
It's just that you 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 Cos 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