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