Nothing Ever Happens - Del Amitri [Verse 1] (G) (Em) Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed (G) (Em) And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats (C) (G) (D) (C) Janitors padlock the gates for security guards to patrol (C) (G) (D) And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink While the married ones (C) turn on a chat show (G) (C) (G) And theyll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow [Verse 2] Gentlemen time please, you know we cant serve anymore Now the traffic lights change to stop, when theres nothing to go And by five oclock everything's dead And every third car is a cab, and ignorant people sleep in their beds, Like the doped white mice in the college lab [Chorus] G C G C And Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all. Em C The needle returns to the start of the song, D C And we all sing along like before, Page 1/3 G C G And well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow. [Verse 3] Telephone exchanges click while theres nobody there, The martians could land in the carpark and no one would care. F Close-circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same video everyday. And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed, Just survive constant action replay [Chorus] [Interlude] A Em A Em G A G A [Verse 4] Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs While angry from manchester writes to complain about all the repeats on t.v. And computer terminals report some gains, on the values of copper and tin While american businessmen snap up van goghs for the price of a hospital wing [Chorus]