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