Effect And Cause

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

A	E	A
I guess you have to have a problem if you	want to invent a	contraption

A	E
First You Cause a train wreck, then you put me in	traction

First came an action, then a reaction

	D
But you	can’t switch around for your own satisfaction

	A	E	A
Well you	burnt my house down, then got	mad at my	reaction

A	E	A
Well in every complicated	situation of the human	relation

A	E
To make sense of it all, takes a whole lotta	concentration

Well you can blame a baby, for her pregnant ma’

	D
And if	theres one of these unavoidable laws

	A	E	A
It’s that you	just can’t take the	effect and make it the	cause

	D	D
You can’t	take the effect, and	make it the cause

	A	A
I did’t	rob a bank, because you	made up the law

	D	D
Blame	me for robbing Peter,	don’t you blame Paul

	A
You can’t	take the effect and make it the cause

A	E	A
I ain’t the reason that you gave me no	reason to return your	call

A	E
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

	D
But if you’re	headed to the grave, you don’t blame the hearse

A	E	A
You’re like a little girl yelling at her	brother ’cause you lost his	ball

A	E	A
Well you keep blaming me for what you	did, and that ain’t	all

A	E
The way you clean up a wreck is enough to give one	pause

You seem to forget just how this all started

	D
I’m	reacting to you because you left me broken hearted

A	E	A
See, you just can’t take the	effect and make it the	cause

	D	D
You can’t	take the effect, and	make it the cause

	A	A
I didn’t	rob a bank, becuase you	made up the law

	D	D
Blame	me for robbing Peter,	dont you blame Paul

	A
You can’t	take the effect, and make it the cause

"A"

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