Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

I guess you have to have a problem if you want to invent a contraption

First You Cause a train wreck, then you put me in traction

First came an action, 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 of the human relation

To make sense of it all, takes a whole lotta concentration

Well you can 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

Chorus

 You can't take the effect, and make it the cause

 I did't rob a bank, because you made up the law

 Blame me for robbing Peter, don't you blame Paul

 You 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 you're headed to the grave, you don't blame the hearse

You're like a little girl yelling at her brother 'cause you lost his ball

Well you keep blaming me for what you did, and that ain't all

The way you clean up a wreck is enough to give one pause

You seem to forget just how this all 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

Chorus

 You can't take the effect, and make it the cause

 I didn't rob a bank, becuase you made up the law

 Blame me for robbing Peter, dont you blame Paul

 You can't take the effect, and make it the cause

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