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