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For all of us who ever wondered why we got here
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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

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