E F#m A F#m E

[Verse 1]
F#m         E            A             D
So all of you be damned we can't have heaven crammed
Bm                        D             A          E
So Winston Churchill said I could have smacked his head
F#m        E              A          D
And all of those infected waiting to be collected
Bm                           D                  A         E
I must get out at any price before the feeling gets too nice


[CHORUS]
F#m             D              A     E
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
F#m             D               A    E
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
F#m             D              A   E           D      E
Just can't get, just can't get no Can't get no protection
A      D    A      D      A
Protection, protection

[Verse 2]
F#             E        A                D
Every bomb is detonated every switch is thrown
Bm                                      D            A      E
And everybody tells me don't be scared act as if you never cared
F#m         E                A             D
So I wear a blank expression to conceal my real impression
Bm                            D                A        E
Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station


[CHORUS]
F#m             D              A      E
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
F#m             D               A      E
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
F#m             D              A   E            D      E
Just can't get, just can't get no Can't get no protection
A       D    A    D      A
Protection, protection

[Verse 3]
F#m                    A
So turn off this sound I'm ready to go down
Bm                    D
I don't know myself, I don't know you either
F#m                    A
You're full of disease it's something I discovered
Bm                        D
I know you've been mixing with Big Brother's brother
 F#m                            A
It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart
Bm                       D
It's just the thought of someone
Bm                       D
It's just the thought of someone
 Bm                      D        F#m        A    F#m        A
It's just the thought of someone sticking it in, sticking it in

[Verse 4]
F#m       E                  A               D
So if you think that's funny I'm not really laughing honey
Bm                             D                   A          E
Your love letters are confetti I ripped them up my hands were sweaty
F#m             E             A         D
And then those ghastly faces recur in nightmare places
Bm                         D                 A        E
Happy hours come and gone much too short and much too long


[CHORUS]
F#m             D              A      E
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
F#m             D               A      E
Just can't get, just can't get no protection
F#m             D              A   E           D      E
Just can't get, just can't get no Can't get no protection
A      D    A    D      E
Protection, protection

[Verse 5]
F#m                          D                A        E
Turn off all the information radios just pick up that station
A       D    A      D  A     D   E
Protection protection protection
F#m                             A
It ain't the knife in the heart that tears you apart
Bm                        D       F#m        A
It's just the thought of someone sticking it in
A        D  A      D
Protection protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off
D
Protection Switch it off switch it off switch it off
D
Protection protection You want to hide? You want to hide?
D
You want to hide, hide, hide? Protection D PEAT AND FDE