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