Nothing Ever Happens-Del Amitri

[ti:Nothing Ever Happens] [ar:Del Amitri] [al:20Th Century Masters The Mill] [by:] [offset:0] [00:07.42]Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed [00:11.23] [00:13.72]And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats [00:17.97] [00:20.34]Janitors padlock the gates [00:23.58]For security guards to patrol [00:26.21] [00:27.27]And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink [00:30.32]While the married ones turn on a chat show [00:33.20] [00:35.50]And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow [00:40.00] [00:42.68]Gentlemen time please you know we can't serve anymore [00:46.72] [00:48.97]Now the traffic lights change to stop when there's nothing to go [00:53.21] [00:55.71]And by five o'clock everything's dead [00:57.32] [00:59.04]And every third car is a cab [01:01.91] [01:02.66]And ignorant people sleep in their beds [01:05.79]Like the doped white mice in the college lab [01:09.09] [01:11.15]Nothing ever happens nothing happens at all [01:16.77] [01:17.82]The needle returns to the start of the song [01:21.07]And we all sing along like before [01:23.57] [01:24.25]And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow [01:28.85] [01:31.35]Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody there [01:35.32] [01:37.94]The Martians could land in the car park and no one would care [01:41.65] [01:44.83]Close-circuit cameras in department stores [01:48.20]Shoot the same movie every day [01:50.57] [01:51.20]And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed [01:54.69]Just survive constant action replay [01:58.01] [01:59.82]Nothing ever happens nothing happens at all [02:05.39] [02:06.63]The needle returns to the start of the song [02:09.82]And we all sing along like before [02:12.31] [02:13.06]And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow [02:17.38] [02:43.72]Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs [02:47.77] [02:50.39]While Angry from Manchester writes to complain about [02:53.90]All the repeats on TV [02:56.71] [02:57.34]And computer terminals report some gains [03:00.52]On the values of copper and tin [03:03.39]While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs [03:07.37]For the price of a hospital wing [03:10.06] [03:12.37]Nothing ever happens nothing happens at all [03:17.98] [03:19.42]The needle returns to the start of the song [03:22.29]And we all sing along like before [03:24.86] [03:25.67]Nothing ever happens nothing happens at all [03:31.01] [03:32.39]They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock [03:35.56]And we'll all go along like before [03:38.06] [03:38.81]And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow [03:43.44] [03:46.31] [03:47.44]