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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Janitors padlock the gates

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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 anymore

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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

          G              F
And every third car is a cab

     F              C
And ignorant people sleep in their beds

         G                       F
Like the doped white mice in the college lab

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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 they'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 carpark and no one would care

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Close-circuit cameras in department stores

          G                F
Shoot the same movie every day

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And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed

         G                       F
Just survive constant action replay

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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 they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

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Billboardings advertise products that nobody needs

      C
While "Angry from Manchester" writes to complain about

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all the repeats on TV

        F              C
And computer terminals report some gains

        G                   F
On the values of copper and tin

        F                    C
While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs

        G                   F
For the price of a hospital wing

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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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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 all go along like before

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And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow