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

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

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

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

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

REPEAT CHORUS:

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

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]