Lirik dan Chord Lagu Effect and Cause - The White Stripes

Ditulis oleh salah satu anggotanya, Jack White, lagu ini muncul sebagai trek ketiga belas dalam album yang diberi nama Icky Thump.

Dirilis melalui Warner Bros. Records dan Third Man Records, album tersebut sukses mencapai peringkat ke-1 di UK Albums Chart.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Effect and Cause” dari The White Stripes. 

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
A
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
A
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

Chorus
                   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
A
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
A
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

Chorus
                  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"