Chords for Del Amitri - Nothing ever happens (James Whale show)

_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Post [C] office clerks put up signs saying [Dm] position closed
_ [F] And secretaries turn off typewriters and put [Am] on their coats
_ [Bb] And janitors padlock the [C] gates for security guards to [Bb] patrol
And bachelors [F] phone up their friends for a [C] drink
While the married ones [Bb] turn on a chat show
_ [F] And they'll all be [Bb] lonely tonight and [F] lonely tomorrow
_ _ Gentlemen, time please, you know we [Dm] can't serve anymore
_ Now the [F] 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 song
[C] And we all sing along [Bb] like before
[F] And we'll all be [Bb] lonely tonight and [F] lonely tomorrow
_ And telephone exchanges click while there's [Dm] nobody there
_ [F] The Martians could land in the car park and no [Dm] one would care
_ [Bb] And closed circuit [F] cameras in department stores [C] shoot the same movie [Bb] every day
[F] And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed
[C] Just survive constant [Bb] action replay _
[F] And nothing ever happens, [F] nothing [Bb] happens at all
[Dm] The needle returns to the start of the song
[C] And we all sing along [Bb] like before
[F] And we'll all be lonely tonight and [F] lonely tomorrow _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[G] And _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] Bill Holdings advertises products that [Dm] nobody needs
_ _ [F] While Angry from Manchester writes to [Dm] complain about all the repeats on TV
[Bb] And computer [F] terminals report some [C] gains in the values [Bb] of copper and tin
While American [F] businessmen snap off [C] van goghs for the price of a [Bb] hospital wing
[Gm] And [F]
nothing [Bb] ever [F] happens, nothing happens at all
[A] The needle [G] returns to the start of the [C] song
And we all sing [Bb] along like before
[F] And nothing [Bb] ever [Am] happens, nothing happens at all
[Dm]
They'll burn down [G] the synagogues at six [C] o'clock
And we'll all go [Bb] along like before
[F] And we'll all [Bb] be lonely tonight [F] and lonely tomorrow _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _