Nothing Ever Happens-Del Amitri

[00:00.00]Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed [00:16.38]And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats [00:20.63]Janitors padlock the gates [00:22.12]For security guards to patrol [00:24.37]And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink [00:29.23]While the married ones turn on a chat show [00:31.20]And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow [00:38.76]Gentlemen time please,you know we can't serve anymore [00:44.31]Now the traffic lights change to stop,when there's nothing to go [00:51.14]And by five o'clock everything's dead [00:57.44]And every third car is a cab [01:01.14]And ignorant people sleep in their beds [01:05.87]Like the ***** white mice in the college lab [01:08.17]Nothing ever happens,nothing happens at all [01:17.13]The needle returns to the start of the song [01:21.03]And we all sing along like before [01:23.13]And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow [01:27.69]Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody there [01:35.29]The Martians could land in the carpark and no one would care [01:42.64]Close-circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same video every day [01:50.58]And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed [01:54.53]Just survive constant action replay [01:56.39]Nothing ever happens,nothing happens at all [02:04.99]The needle returns to the start of the song [02:09.60]And we all sing along like before [02:13.41]And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow [02:16.21]Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs [02:45.15]While angry from Manchester writes to complain about [02:53.75]All the repeats on T.V. [02:55.30]And computer terminals report some gains [03:00.61]On the values of copper and tin [03:02.41]While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs [03:06.96]For the price of a hospital wing [03:08.56]Nothing ever happens,nothing happens at all [03:17.36]The needle returns to the start of the song [03:21.46]And we all sing along like before [03:23.26]Nothing ever happens,nothing happens at all [03:30.48]They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock [03:34.63]And we'll all go along like before [03:36.63]And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow