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 they put me in traction
 Well, first came an action and then a reaction
 But you can't switch 'em 'round for your own satisfaction
 Well, you burned my house down, then got mad at my reaction
 Well, in every complicated situation of a 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 there's 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
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 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
 Yeah, 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 she lost his ball
 Yeah
 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, yes
 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