Chords:
{t: Nothing Ever Happens}
{key: C}
{artist:Del Amitri}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVOzaDBEmc Capo 5
{c: Thanks to Dave Walsh}
[C] Post office clerks put up signs saying 'Position [Am7] Closed'
[C] And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their[Am7] coats
[F] Janitors padlock the [C] gates for [G] security guards to [F] patrol
And bachelors phone up their [C] friends for a drink
While [G] the married ones turn on a [F] chat show
And they'll [C] all be lonely to-[F]night and lonely to-[C]morrow
[C] 'Gentlemen, time please, you know we can't serve any [Am7] more'
[C] Now the traffic lights change to stop when there's nothing to [Am7] go
[F] And by five o' clock everything's [C] dead and every [G] third car is a [F] cab,
And ignorant people [C] sleep in their beds
Like the[G] doped white mice in the [F] college lab
Chorus:
[C] And nothing ever [F] happens, [C] nothing happens[F] at all:
The [Am] needle returns to the [F] start of the song
And we [G] all sing along like [F] before
And we'll [C] all be lonely to-[F]night and lonely to-[C]morrow
[C] Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody [Am7] there
[C] The Martians could land in the car park and no one would [Am7] care
The [F] close-circuit cameras in [C] department stores
Shoot the [G] same movie every [F] day
And the stars of these films neither [C] die nor get killed
Just [G] survive constant [F] action replay
[C] And nothing ever [F] happens, [C] nothing happens[F] at all:
The [Am] needle returns to the [F] start of the song
And we [G] all sing along like [F] before
And we'll [C] all be lonely to-[F]night and lonely to-[C]morrow
[D] [Am7] [D] [Am7] [C] [D] [C] [D] [C]
[C] And bill hoardings advertise products that nobody [Am7] needs
[C] While 'Angry from Manchester' writes to complain about [Am7] all the repeats on TV;
And [F] computer terminals [C] report some gains on the [G] values of copper and [F] tin,
While American businessmen [C] snap up Van Goghs for the [G] price of a hospital [F] wing
{c: Slow on last line}
[C] And nothing ever [F] happens, [C] nothing happens[F] at all:
The [Am] needle returns to the [F] start of the song
And we [G] all sing along like [F] before
And we'll [C] all be lonely to-[F]night and lonely to-[C]morrow
