Del Amitri – Nothing Ever Happens (Guitar)

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Post office clerks put up signs saying 'Position Closed'

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And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats

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And janitors padlock the gates for security guards to patrol

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And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink

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While the married ones turn on a chat show

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And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

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'Gentlemen, time please, you know we can't serve any more'

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Now the traffic lights change to stop when there's nothing to go

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And by five o' clock everything's dead

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And every third car is a cab,

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And ignorant people sleep in their beds

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Like the doped white mice in the college lab

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And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all:

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The needle returns to the start of the song

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And we all sing along like before

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And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

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Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody there

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The Martians could land in the car park and no one would care

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The close-circuit cameras in department stores

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Shoot the same movie every day

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And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed

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Just survive constant action replay

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And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all:

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The needle returns to the start of the song

       G                     F
And we all sing along like before

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And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

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And bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs

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While 'Angry from Manchester' writes to complain about all the repeats on TV;

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And computer terminals report

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Some gains in the values of copper and tin,

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While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs

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For the price of a hospital wing

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And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all:

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The needle returns to the start of the song

       G                     F
And we all sing along like before

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And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all:

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They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock

          G                   F
And we'll all go along like before:

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And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow