Effect and Cause

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

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 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 robbing peter
Don't you blame Paul
Can't take the effect
And make it the cause