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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]