Chords for Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens

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Most of us clerks put up signs saying [Dm] position closed _
[F] And secretaries turn off typewriters and put [Dm] on their coats _
_ [Bb] Janitors [F] padlock the gates [C] for security guards [Bb] to patrol
And bachelors phone [F] up their friends for a drink [C] while the married ones [Bb] turn on a chat show
And [F] they'll all be [Bb] lonely tonight and [F] lonely tomorrow
_ _ Gentleman, time please, you know we can't [Dm] serve anymore
_ [F] Now the traffic lights change to stop when there's [Dm] nothing to go
And [Bb] by five o'clock [F] everything's dead [C] and every third [Bb] car is a cab
And ignorant [F] people sleep in their [C] beds like the dope white [Bb] mice in the college lab
[F] And nothing [Bb] ever happens, [F] nothing [Bb] happens at all
[Dm] The needle [Bb] returns to the start of the [C] song and we all sing along [Bb] like before
[F] And we'll all be [Bb] lonely tonight and [F] lonely tomorrow
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And Bill Holdings advertise products that [Dm] nobody needs _
[F] While Angrif from Manchester writes to [Dm] complain about all the repeats on TV
[Bb] And computer [F] terminals report some [C] gains in the values of [Bb] copper and tin
While American [F] businessmen snap our banged [C] offs for the price of a [Bb] hospital wing
_ [F] And nothing [Bb] ever happens, [F]
nothing [Bb] happens at all
[Dm] The needle [Bb] returns to the start of the [C] song and we all sing along [Bb] like before
[F] And nothing [Bb] ever happens, [F]
nothing [Bb] happens at all
[Dm] They'll burn down the [Bb] synagogues at six o'clock [C] and we'll all go along [Bb] like before
[F] And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow