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