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