Effect And Cause 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 aint 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 aint 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, and that aint 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