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

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

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

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

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

REPEAT CHORUS:

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

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]