Effect And Cause chords by The White Stripes

Chords with lyrics

"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 augmentedA

A augmentedA
I guess you have to have a problem if you want to invent a contraption
E MajorE
First You Cause a train wreck, then you put me in traction
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First came an action, then a reaction
    D MajorD
But you can't switch around for your own satisfaction
     A augmentedA
Well you burnt my house down, then got mad at my reaction

A augmentedA
Well in every complicated situation of the human relation
E MajorE
To make sense of it all, takes a whole lotta concentration
A augmentedA
Well you can blame a baby, for her pregnant ma'
    D MajorD
And if theres one of these unavoidable laws
       A augmentedA
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause


Chorus
     D MajorD
You can't take the effect, and make it the cause
    A augmentedA
I did't rob a bank, because you made up the law
   D MajorD
Blame me for robbing Peter, don't you blame Paul
     A augmentedA
You can't take the effect and make it the cause


A augmentedA
I ain't the reason that you gave me no reason to return your call
E MajorE
You built a house of cards and got shocked when you saw them fall
A augmentedA
Well, I ain't saying I'm innocent, in fact the reverse
       D MajorD
But if you're headed to the grave, you don't blame the hearse
A augmentedA
You're like a little girl yelling at her brother 'cause you lost his ball

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


Chorus
     D MajorD
You can't take the effect, and make it the cause
     A augmentedA
I didn't rob a bank, becuase you made up the law
   D MajorD
Blame me for robbing Peter, dont you blame Paul
     A augmentedA
You can't take the effect, and make it the cause

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