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

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

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

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

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

REPEAT CHORUS:

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

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]