Effect and Cause

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? Well, first comes an action And then a reaction But if you change 'em around For your own satisfaction Well you burned my house down Then got mad At my reaction Well in every complicated situation Of human relation Making sense of it all takes a whole lot Of concentration You can't blame a baby For her pregnant ma And if there's one of these unavoidable laws It's that 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 But 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 I ain't sayin I'm innocent In fact, the reverse But if your headed to the grave You don't blame the hearse You're like a little girl Yellin at her brother '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! You seem to forget Just how all this started I'm reacting to you Beacause you left me Broken hearted Well 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 But don't you blame Paul! You can't take the effect And make it the cause.