Effect and Cause - White Stripes

I love this song - it's brillant! The line "But if you're headed to the grave, you don't blame the hearse" gets me everytime!

Full Lyrics:
I guess you have to have a problem
If you want to invent a contraption
First you cause a train wreck
Then you put me in traction?
Well, first came an action
And then a reaction
But you can't change 'em around
For your own satisfaction
Well, you burned my house down,
then got mad
At my reaction.

Well, in every complicated situation
of human relation
Makin' sense of it all takes a whole lot
of concentration
You can blame a baby
For her pregnant ma
And if there's one of these unavoidable laws
It's that you just 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 a law
Blame me for robbin' Peter
Don't you blame Paul!
You 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
I ain't sayin' I'm innocent
In fact the reverse
But if you're headin' to the grave
You don't blame the hearse
You're like a little girl
yellin' at her brother
'Cause you lost his ball

Well you keep blamin' me
for what you did
And that ain't all
The way you clean up a wreck
Is enough to get one pause!
You seem to forget
Just how this all started
I'm reactin' to you
because you left me
broken-hearted
Well 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 a law
Blame me for robbin' Peter
Don't you blame Paul!
You can't take the effect
And make it the cause.