The White Stripes - Effect and cause

^AI guess you have to have a problem if you ^Ewant to invent a cont^Araption ^AFirst You Cause a train wreck then you put me in tr^Eaction ^AFirst came an action then a reaction But you ^Dcan't switch around for your own satisfaction Well you ^Aburnt my house down then got m^Ead at my rea^Action

^AWell in every complicated situ^Eation of the human rel^Aation ^ATo make sense of it all takes a whole lotta concent^Eration ^AWell you can blame a baby for her pregnant ma' And if ^Dtheres one of these unavoidable laws It's that you ^Ajust can't take the ef^Efect and make it the ^Acause

You can't ^Dtake the effect and m^Dake it the cause I did't ^Arob a bank because you m^Aade up the law Blame ^Dme for robbing Peter d^Don't you blame Paul You can't ^Atake the effect and make it the cause

^AI ain't the reason that you gave me no ^Ereason to return your ^Acall ^AYou built a house of cards and got shocked when you saw them ^Efall ^AWell I ain't saying I'm innocent in fact the reverse But if you're ^Dheaded to the grave you don't blame the hearse ^AYou're like a little girl yelling at her ^Ebrother 'cause you lost his ^Aball

^AWell you keep blaming me for what you ^Edid and that ain't a^All ^AThe way you clean up a wreck is enough to give one ^Epause ^AYou seem to forget just how this all started I'm re^Dacting to you because you left me broken hearted ^ASee you just can't take the ef^Efect and make it the c^Aause

You can't ^Dtake the effect and m^Dake it the cause I didn't ^Arob a bank becuase you m^Aade up the law Blame ^Dme for robbing Peter d^Dont you blame Paul You can't ^Atake the effect and make it the cause