I love The White Stripes, a band, for those who don't know them. They have a song on their new album that I have listened to a lot in my first few weeks of sobriety, though I doubt they write their songs with that in mind. The lyrics are funny, but the point is, things have gone wrong when they have because of my problem. My disease is not a reaction. Anyway:
"Effect and Cause" (lyrics by Jack White)
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 switch around For your own satisfaction Well, you burned my house down, then got mad At my reaction
Well, in every complicated situation There's the human relation Makin' sense of it all Take a whole lot a concentration
Well, you can't 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 the law Blame me for robbin' 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 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 song started I'm reactin' to you because you left me broken-hearted See, you just can't take the effect And make it the cause
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 robbin' Peter Don't you blame Paul You just can't take the effect And make it the cause