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