Del Amitri's Justin Currie - Nothing Ever Happens - with lyrics

Del Amitri's Justin Currie - Nothing Ever Happens - with lyrics
From the BBC Songwriters Circle with Chris Difford, Justin Currie and Boo Hewerdine

Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
Janitors padlock the gates
For security guards to patrol
And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink
While the married ones turn on a chat show

And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

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

Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before

And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody there
The Martians could land in the carpark and no one would care
Close-circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same video every day
And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed
Just survive constant action replay

Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before

And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

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

Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before
Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock
And we'll all go along like before

And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow

Category:

Music

Tags:

• del amitri
• justin currie
• nothing ever happens
• bbc songwriter's circle
• chris difford
• boo hewerdine
• lyrics

[rustyelliot]

Pure class I love this tune it is ageless!

[SuperFatmac]

The lyrics say it all, at most from 3.15 mins. so what we going to do abouut it????

[dizmatt1]

not heard the accoustic version of this. think I listened to this when I was 16.....

[csjh1]

@gazapapa and ENGLAND!!!!!!!!!!

[gazapapa]

GO SCOTLAND!!!!!!!!!!!

[77cortina]

20 years old but still sums up what is bad in the modern world.

[bezzmckane]

imagine being there... in that little place.



[solangejolie2012]

Dammit, we need this show in the U.S. Am SO greatful you posted, we are a musical wasteland over here on the other side of the pond :(

[vodkapops]

Jeeez!!!! Amazing acoutic version!! Love ittt! :)

[godwini74]

Let me please be the first to say that this song holds so many memories for me. It's one of the only songs from the 90's? That I still play today. But I just love it. Justin you are an amazing songwriter. I love this. xxx