Intro
G Bm
Collaborations don't work
C Cm A
They don't work, they don't work
G Bm
Collaborations don't work
C Cm A
They don't work, they don't work
G Bm
Collaborations don't work
C Cm A
They don't work, they don't work
C Cm G D
I'm gonna do it all by myse-elf
C Cm G D
I'm gonna do it all by myself
x2
D A#
Mozart didn’t need a little hack to chart
D A#
Warhol didn’t need to ask De Kooning about art
C A
Frank Lloyd Wright always ate à la carte
Dm A
Wish I had been that smart
Dm A
Wish I had been that smart
[Chorus]
G F D Dm
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
Dm
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 A# F C
Where is this going, someone tell me
A# F C
Starlight, rub off on me
A# F C
Star bright, rub off on me
[x2]
G A F Ab
Gm Em F Dm
G A F Ab
I don't need your patronizing
Gm Em F Dm
I don't need your agonizing
G A F Ab
I don't need your navel gazing
Gm Em F Dm
I don't get your way of phrasing
G A F Ab
I don't think you're really trying
Gm Em F Dm
What, pray tell, are you implying?
Dm A# x2
Dm A#
I ain't no collaborator
Dm A#
I am the partisan
C A
Rebel in the rocks with dirty trousers, broken pistol in the hand
Dm A#
I ain't no collaborator
Dm A#
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
Dm A
I ain't no collaborator
D m A
I ain't no collaborator
A# A
I am the master, independent
A# C
If I ever need a father, it won't be you, old man
(chorus)
outro
F Am Dm
F C Am