Nothing Ever Happens - Del Amitri [Capo 5]

C                           ( C > x30010 > C )  Am
Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
    F                   C          G                  F  
Janitors padlock the gates for security guards to patrol
And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink while the married ones turn on a chat show

	            C               F                      C
	And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Gentlemen time please, you know we cant serve anymore
Now the traffic lights change to stop, when theres nothing to go
And by five o'clock everything's dead, and every third car is a cab
And ignorant people sleep in their beds like the doped white mice in the college lab

	       C            F      C                  F 
	And Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
	    Am                    F 
	The needle returns to the start of the song
	       G                     F
	And we all sing along like before
	          C               F                   C
	And well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Telephone exchanges click while theres nobody there
The martians could land in the carpark and no one would care
Close-circuit cameras shoot... the same video everyday
And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed, just survive constant action replay

	Chorus, then instrumental:  D  C  D  C  Am  G  C

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 x2
	...They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock
	And well all go along like before
	And well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow  x2