Del Amitri, Nothing Ever Happens (1989)
Key: :[F] (w: Justin Currie)
VERSE 1:
[F] Post office clerks put up signs saying position
[Dm] closed.
[F] Secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their
[Dm] coats.
[Bb] Janitors padlock the
[F] gates, for
[C] security guards to
[Bb] patrol,
And
[Bb] bachelors phone up their
[F] friends for a drink,
While the
[C] married ones turn on a
[Bb] chat show;
And they'll
[F] all be lonely
[Bb] tonight and lonely
[F] tomorrow
VERSE 2:
[F] Gentlemen time please, you know we can't serve any-
[Dm]-more,
Now the
[F] traffic lights change to stop, when there's nothing to
[Dm] go
And by
[Bb] five o'clock everything's
[F] dead, and
[C] every third car is a
[Bb] cab,
And ignorant people
[F] sleep in their bed,
Like the
[C] doped white mice in the college
[Bb] lab
CHORUS:
And
[F] nothing ever
[Bb] happens,
[F] nothing happens at
[Bb] all,
The
[Dm] needle returns to the
[Bb] start of the song,
And we
[C] all sing along like
[Bb] before,
And we'll
[F] all be lonely
[Bb] tonight and lonely
[F] tomorrow
VERSE 3:
[F] Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody
[Dm] there.
The
[F] Martians could land in the car park, and no one would
[Dm] care.
[Bb] Close-circuit cameras in depart-
[F]-ment stores,
Shoot the
[C] same movie every-
[Bb]-day,
And the stars of these films neither
[F] die nor get killed just
Sur-
[C]-vive constant action re-
[Bb]-play
REPEAT CHORUS:
VERSE 4:
[F] Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody
[Dm] needs,
While
[F] angry from Manchester writes to complain about all the REPEATs on
[Dm] TV.
[Bb] Computer terminals report some
[F] gains, in the
[C] values of copper and
[Bb] tin,
While American businessmen
[F] snap up Van Gogh's,
For the
[C] price of a hospital
[Bb] wing
REPEAT CHORUS: [x2] 