I guess you have to have a probelm
If you want to 'vent a contraption
Well you cause a trainwreck

And then you put me in traction
First came an action
And then a reaction

But you can't switch around
For your own satisfaction
Well you burnt my house down

And then got mad at my reaction

Well in every complicated situation

There's a human relation
To make sense of it all
Take a whole lot of concentration

Well you can't blame her baby
For her pregnant ma
And if there's one of these

On her auto applause

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
Cos 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
Don't blame the hearse

You're like a little girl yelling at her brother
Cos 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

Cos you left me broken hearted

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
Cos 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