Nothing Ever Happens
Del Amitri
Intro:
[F]
Verse 1:
[F] Post office clerks put up signs saying position [Dm7] closed
And [F] secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their [Dm7] coats
[Bb] Janitors padlock the [F] gates... for se[C]curity guards to [Bb] patrol
And [Bb] bachelors phone up their [F] friends for a drink...
while the [C] married ones turn on a [Bb] chat show
And they'll [F] all be lonely to[Bb]night and lonely to[F]morrow
Verse 2:
[F] Gentlemen time please you know we can't serve any [Dm7] more
Now the [F] traffic lights change to stop when there's nothing to [Dm7] go
And by [Bb] five o' clock everything's [F] dead...
and [C] every third car is a [Bb] cab
And [Bb] ignorant people [F] sleep in their beds
like the [C] doped white mice in the [Bb] college lab
|Chorus:
|And [F] nothing ever [Bb] happens... [F] nothing happens at [Bb] all
|The [Dm] needle returns to the [Bb] start of the song... and we [C] all sing along like be[Bb]fore
|And we'll [F] all be lonely to[Bb]night and lonely to[F]morrow [F]
Verse 3:
[F] Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody [Dm7] there
The [F] Martians could land in the car park and no one could [Dm7] care
The [Bb] closed-circuit cameras in [F] department stores shoot the [C] same movie every [Bb] day
And the [Bb] stars of these films neither [F] die nor get killed...
just to sur[C]vive the constant action [Bb] replay
|Chorus:
|And [F] nothing ever [Bb] happens... [F] nothing happens at [Bb] all
|The [Dm] needle returns to the [Bb] start of the song... and we [C] all sing along like be[Bb]fore
|And we'll [F] all be lonely to[Bb]night and lonely to[F]morrow [F]
Instrumental:
[G] [Dm7] [G] [Dm7]
[F] [G] [F] [G] [F]
Verse 4:
[F] Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody [Dm7] needs
While [F] 'Angry from Manchester' writes to complain about [Dm7] all the repeats on TV
And [Bb] computer terminals [F] report some gains on the [C] values of copper and [Bb] tin
While A[Bb]merican businessmen [F] snap up Van Goghs for the [C] price of a hospital [Bb] wing
Outro:
And [F] nothing ever [Bb] happens... [F] nothing happens at [Bb] all
The [Dm] needle returns to the [Bb] start of the song and we [C] all sing along like be[Bb]fore
And [F] nothing ever [Bb] happens... [F] nothing happens at [Bb] all
They'll [Dm] burn down the synagogues [Bb] at 6 o' clock and we'll [C] all go along like be[Bb]fore
And we'll [F] all be lonely to[Bb]night and lonely to[F]morrow
[F - Single Strum]