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