Protect Me From What I Want is track 11 off Placebo’s fourth studio album Sleeping With Ghosts, released in 2003.

The range for this song is less than one octave: E4 to D5.

The vocals for this song are in G Major

Guitars/Vocals uses Standard tuning

VERSE 1

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   It's the di- sease of the age 

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   It's the di- sease that we crave  

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   A- lone at the end of the ra- ve   

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   We catch the last bus home

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   Cor- porate a- me- ric- a wakes

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   Coff- ee re- pub- lic and cakes

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   We o- pen the latch on the  gate

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   Of the hole that we call our home

CHORUS

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   Pro- tect me from what I want

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   Pro- tect me from what I want

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   Pro- tect me from what I wa- nt

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   Pro- tect me pro- tect me                                  

VERSE 2

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   May- be we're vic- tims of fate  

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   Re- mem- ber when we'd cel- e- brate 

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   We'd drink and get high un- til la- te

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   But now we're all a- lone

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   Wed- ding bells ain't gon- na chime

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   With both of us guil- ty of crime  

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   And both of us sen- tenced to time   

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   And now we're all a- lone     

REPEAT CHORUS

Tabbed by Andrew Marks  - questions, suggestions, comments welcome