von Del Amitri

-- Verse
            
                Post 
                
                C
                 
                office clerks put up signs saying position 
                
                A-
                 
                closed
                
                And 
                
                C
                 
                secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their 
                
                A-
                 
                coats
                
                F
                 
                Janitors padlock the 
                
                C
                 
                gates for se
                
                G
                 
                curity guards to 
                
                F
                 
                patrol
                
                And 
                
                F
                 
                bachelors phone up their 
                
                C
                 
                friends for a drink While the 
                
                G
                 
                married ones
                
                turn on a 
                
                F
                 
                chat show
                
                And they'll 
                
                C
                 
                all be lonely to
                
                F
                 
                night and 
                
                G
                 
                lonely to
                
                C
                 
                morrow

-- Verse
            
                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 everythings dead
                
                And every third car is a cab, and ignorant people sleep in their beds,
                
                Like the doped white mice in the college lab

-- Verse

-- Chorus

And C Nothing ever F happens, C nothing happens at F all.

The A- needle re G turns to the F start of the song,

And we G all sing along like be F fore,

And we'll C all be lonely to F night and G lonely to C morrow.

-- Verse
            
                Telephone exchanges click while theres nobody there,
                
                The martians could land in the carpark and no one would care.
                
                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

And Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all.

The needle returns to the start of the song,

And we all sing along like before,

And well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow.

-- Bridge

| D C D C Am G C |

(Instrumental)

-- Verse

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
            
                And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
                
                The needle returns to the start of the song,
                
                And we all sing along like before,
                
                And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all,
                
                Theyll burn down the synagogues at six oclock
                
                And well all go along like before,
                
                And well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow.