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