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

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

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

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

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