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 ain't 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 ain't 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

but that ain't 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