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The White Stripes
"Effect and Cause"
From the album "Icky Thump"
If you have heard their cover of Loretta Lynn's "Rated X", it is very similar, strumming wise.
[Intro]
A E A
[Verse]
AI guess you have to have a problem if you Ewant to invent a contAraption
AFirst you cause a train wreck, then you put me in tEraction
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 Emad at my reAaction
AWell, in every complicated situEation of the human relAation
ATo make sense of it all, takes a whole lotta concenEtration
AWell, you can't blame a baby, for her pregnant ma
And if Dthere's one of these unavoidable laws
It's that you Ajust can't take the efEfect and make it the Acause
[Chorus]
You can't Dtake the effect, and Dmake it the cause
I didn't Arob a bank, because you Amade up the law
Blame Dme for robbing Peter, Ddon't you blame Paul
You can't Atake the effect and make it the cause
[Verse]
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 Aall
AThe way you clean up a wreck is enough to give one Epause
AYou seem to forget just how this all started
I'm reDacting to you because you left me broken hearted
ASee, you just can't take the eEffect and make it the Acause
[Chorus]
You can't Dtake the effect, and Dmake it the cause
I didn't Arob a bank, because you Amade up the law
Blame Dme for robbing Peter, Ddon't you blame Paul
You can't Atake the effect, and make it the cause
"A"
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