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

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

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

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

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

REPEAT CHORUS:

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

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]