Chords for Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens (Official Video)

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Post office clerks put up signs saying [Dm] position closed _
[F] And secretaries turn off typewriters and [Am] put on their coats _
[Bb] The janitors [F] padlock the gates [C] for security [Bb] guards to patrol
And bachelors [F] phone up their friends for a [C] drink
While the married ones [Bb] turn on a chat show
And [F] we'll all be [Bb] lonely tonight and [F] lonely tomorrow
_ _ Gentlemen, 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
_ [Bb] And by five o'clock [F] everything's dead [C] and every third [Bb] car is a cab
And ignorant [F] people sleep on 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 [Bb] along like before
[F] And we'll all be [Bb] lonely tonight and [F] lonely tomorrow
_ _ Telephone exchanges click while there's [Dm] nobody there
_ [F] The martians could land in the car park and no one would care
_ _ [Bb] Closed circuit [F] cameras and department [C] stores shoot the same movie [Bb] every day
And the stars of these [F] films neither die nor get [C] killed, just survive constant action replay
[Gm] _ [F] And nothing [Bb] ever [F] happens, nothing [Bb] happens at all
[Dm] The needle [Bb] returns to the start of the [C] song and we all sing [Bb] along 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 Anger from Manchester writes to [Dm] complain about all the repeats on TV
[Bb] And computer [F] terminals report some [C] gains on the values of [Bb] copper and tin
While American [F] businessmen snap up [C] vanguffs for the price of a [Bb] hospital wing
_ [F] And nothing [Bb] ever [F] happens, nothing [Bb] happens at all
[Dm] The needle [Bb] returns to the start of the song and we all sing along 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 [F] like before
And we'll all be [Bb] lonely tonight and [F] lonely tomorrow _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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