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

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

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

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

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

REPEAT CHORUS:

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

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]