Intro
A C#m
Collaborations don't work
D Dm B
They don't work, they don't work
A C#m
Collaborations don't work
D Dm B
They don't work, they don't work
A C#m
Collaborations don't work
D Dm B
They don't work, they don't work
D Dm A E
I'm gonna do it all by myse-elf
D Dm A E
I'm gonna do it all by myself
x2
E C
Mozart didn’t need a little hack to chart
E C
Warhol didn’t need to ask De Kooning about art
D B
Frank Lloyd Wright always ate à la carte
Em B
Wish I had been that smart
Em B
Wish I had been that smart
[Chorus]
A G E Em
E
Collaborations don't work
You start off deferential
E
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
Em
E
Collaborations don't work
Delaying your vacations
E
To sundrenched island nations
To seek some affirmations
G
Collaborations don't work
E 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 B G A#
Am F#m G Em
A B G A#
I don't need your patronizing
Am F#m G Em
I don't need your agonizing
A B G A#
I don't need your navel gazing
Am F#m G Em
I don't get your way of phrasing
A B G A#
I don't think you're really trying
Am F#m G Em
What, pray tell, are you implying?
Em C x2
Em C
I ain't no collaborator
Em C
I am the partisan
D B
Rebel in the rocks with dirty trousers, broken pistol in the hand
Em C
I ain't no collaborator
Em C
Hack my scalp if you think I am
D B
I am a sadistic young usurper, a hand on your neck
D B
Hand on your lover, oh, give the man a hand
Em B
I ain't no collaborator
E m B
I ain't no collaborator
C B
I am the master, independent
C D
If I ever need a father, it won't be you, old man
(chorus)
outro
G Bm Em
G D Am