Effect & Cause

from Best of: Years 1 & 2 by Drew G. Smith

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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
First came an action, then a reaction
But you can't switch around for your own satisfaction
Well you burnt my house down, then got mad at my reaction

You see in every complicated situation of a human relation
Making sense of it all, takes a whole lotta concentration
Well you can't blame a baby, for her pregnant ma
And if there's just one of these unavoidable laws
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause

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, 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 calls
You built a house of cards and got shocked when you saw them fall
Well, I ain't saying I'm innocent, more 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 brother 'cause you lost his ball

Well you keep blaming me for what you did, and that ain't all
The way you clean up a wreck is enough to give one pause
You seem to forget just how this all started
I'm reacting to you because you left me brokenhearted
See, you just can't take the effect and make it the cause

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, don't you blame Paul
You can't take the effect, and make it the cause

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from Best of: Years 1 & 2, track released December 18, 2009

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