Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens Lyrics
Post office clerks put up signs saying position closedAnd secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coatsJanitors padlock the gatesFor security guards to patrolAnd bachelors phone up their friends for a drinkWhile the married ones turn on a chat showAnd theyll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrowGentlemen time please, you know we cant serve anymoreNow the traffic lights change to stop, when theres nothing to goAnd by five oclock everythings deadAnd every third car is a cabAnd ignorant people sleep in their bedsLike the doped white mice in the college labNothing ever happens, nothing happens at allThe needle returns to the start of the songAnd we all sing along like beforeAnd well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrowTelephone exchanges click while theres nobody thereThe martians could land in the carpark and no one would careClose-circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same video every dayAnd the stars of these films neither die nor get killedJust survive constant action replayNothing ever happens, nothing happens at allThe needle returns to the start of the songAnd we all sing along like beforeAnd well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrowBill hoardings advertise products that nobody needsWhile angry from manchester writes to complain aboutAll the repeats on t.v.And computer terminals report some gainsOn the values of copper and tinWhile american businessmen snap up van goghsFor the price of a hospital wingNothing ever happens, nothing happens at allThe needle returns to the start of the songAnd we all sing along like beforeNothing ever happens, nothing happens at allTheyll burn down the synagogues at six oclockAnd well all go along like beforeAnd well all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
