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

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

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

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

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

REPEAT CHORUS:

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

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]