Intro
E G#m
Collaborations don't work
A Am F#
They don't work, they don't work
E G#m
Collaborations don't work
A Am F#
They don't work, they don't work
E G#m
Collaborations don't work
A Am F#
They don't work, they don't work
A Am E B
I'm gonna do it all by myse-elf
A Am E B
I'm gonna do it all by myself
x2
B G
Mozart didn’t need a little hack to chart
B G
Warhol didn’t need to ask De Kooning about art
A F#
Frank Lloyd Wright always ate à la carte
Bm F#
Wish I had been that smart
Bm F#
Wish I had been that smart
[Chorus]
E D B Bm
B
Collaborations don't work
You start off deferential
B
And strangely reverential
You both feel it's essential
D
Collaborations don't work
He's eyeing your new lover
D
Then one night you discover
Them underneath your covers
Bm
B
Collaborations don't work
Delaying your vacations
B
To sundrenched island nations
To seek some affirmations
D
Collaborations don't work
B colon or a comma
D
And then a drawn-out drama
Bring in the Dalai Lama
D
Where is this damn thing a-goin'?
D G D A
Where is this going, someone tell me
G D A
Starlight, rub off on me
G D A
Star bright, rub off on me
[x2]
E F# D F
Em C#m D Bm
E F# D F
I don't need your patronizing
Em C#m D Bm
I don't need your agonizing
E F# D F
I don't need your navel gazing
Em C#m D Bm
I don't get your way of phrasing
E F# D F
I don't think you're really trying
Em C#m D Bm
What, pray tell, are you implying?
Bm G x2
Bm G
I ain't no collaborator
Bm G
I am the partisan
A F#
Rebel in the rocks with dirty trousers, broken pistol in the hand
Bm G
I ain't no collaborator
Bm G
Hack my scalp if you think I am
A F#
I am a sadistic young usurper, a hand on your neck
A F#
Hand on your lover, oh, give the man a hand
Bm F#
I ain't no collaborator
B m F#
I ain't no collaborator
G F#
I am the master, independent
G A
If I ever need a father, it won't be you, old man
(chorus)
outro
D F#m Bm
D A Am