Del Amitri, Nothing Ever Happens (1989)
^{Key: :[G#] (w: Justin Currie)}

VERSE 1:
[G#] Post office clerks put up signs saying position [Fm] closed.
[G#] Secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their [Fm] coats.
[Db] Janitors padlock the [G#] gates, for [D#] security guards to [Db] patrol,
And [Db] bachelors phone up their [G#] friends for a drink,
While the [D#] married ones turn on a [Db] chat show;
And they'll [G#] all be lonely [Db] tonight and lonely [G#] tomorrow

VERSE 2:
[G#] Gentlemen time please, you know we can't serve any-[Fm]-more,
Now the [G#] traffic lights change to stop, when there's nothing to [Fm] go
And by [Db] five o'clock everything's [G#] dead, and [D#] every third car is a [Db] cab,
And ignorant people [G#] sleep in their bed,
Like the [D#] doped white mice in the college [Db] lab

CHORUS:
And [G#] nothing ever [Db] happens, [G#] nothing happens at [Db] all,
The [Fm] needle returns to the [Db] start of the song,
And we [D#] all sing along like [Db] before,
And we'll [G#] all be lonely [Db] tonight and lonely [G#] tomorrow

VERSE 3:
[G#] Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody [Fm] there.
The [G#] Martians could land in the car park, and no one would [Fm] care.
[Db] Close-circuit cameras in depart-[G#]-ment stores,
Shoot the [D#] same movie every-[Db]-day,
And the stars of these films neither [G#] die nor get killed just
Sur-[D#]-vive constant action re-[Db]-play

REPEAT CHORUS:

VERSE 4:
[G#] Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody [Fm] needs,
While [G#] angry from Manchester writes to complain about all the REPEATs on [Fm] TV.
[Db] Computer terminals report some [G#] gains, in the [D#] values of copper and [Db] tin,
While American businessmen [G#] snap up Van Gogh's,
For the [D#] price of a hospital [Db] wing

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]