Collaborations Don't Work

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