Del Amitri - Nothing ever happens

Intro:	D – D – D – D 

Verse 1:
D			          Bm
Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed
D				   Bm
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
G	         D
Janitors padlock the gates
       A		G
For security guards to patrol
        G		     D
And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink
	 A		 G
While the married ones turn on a chat show
	D	 G	       D
And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Verse 2:
D			         Bm
Gentlemen time please, you know we can't serve anymore 
	D			            Bm
Now the traffic lights change to stop, when there's nothing to go 
       G		        D
And by five o'clock everything's dead 
        A		G
And every third car is a cab 
        G	        D
And ignorant people sleep in their beds 
	A	        G
Like the doped white mice in the college lab

Chorus:
        D        G	D	       G
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
       D		  Bm
The needle returns to the start of the song
             A	  G      
And we all sing along like before
          D	            G	     D
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Verse 3:
D			         Bm
Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody there 
       D	              		      Bm
The Martians could land in the car park and no one would care 
G		D		  A	      G
Close-circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same video every day
	G		D
And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed 
      A		    G
Just survive constant action replay
Chorus:
        D          G	D	       G
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
       D		  Bm
The needle returns to the start of the song
        A	                G      
And we all sing along like before
          D	             G	          D
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Interlude:
Em – G – Em – G – D – G – D – G - A

Verse 4:
D			        Bm
Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs 
      D
While angry from Manchester writes to complain about 
Bm
All the repeats on T.V. 
        G			D
And computer terminals report some gains 
       A		  G
On the values of copper and tin 
      G		  D
While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs 
         A		   G
For the price of a hospital wing 

Chorus:
        D         G	 D	       G
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
       D		 Bm
The needle returns to the start of the song
        A	               G      
And we all sing along like before
      D         G	D	      G
No nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
        D		        Bm
They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock
        A	               G      
And we all sing along like before
          D	            G	          D
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
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mikey
:-)