Effect and Cause

These are the lyrics to yet another song I've been listening to a lot to as of late. This is by The White Stripes.

I guess you have to have a problem
If you want to invent a contraption
Well you cause a train wreck
And then you put me in traction
First came an action
And then a reaction
Bug you can't switch around
For your own satisfaction
Well you burnt my house down
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 a baby
For her pregnant ma
And if there's one of these
On the order for laws

It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause

Well you can't 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
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 you're heading to the grave
Don't blame the hearse
You're like a little girl yelling at her brother
Because you lost his ball

Well you keep on blaming me for what you did
But 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
Because you left me broken hearted

It's just that you 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 robbing Peter
Don't you blame Paul
Can't take the effect
And make it the cause.