Nothing Ever Happens (Will's Song), lyrics by Matt Beswick (Soir)
ttto: "Nothing Ever Happens", by Del Amitri

capo 5th for the usual pitch. 3rd if your throat is as fickle as mine...

          C                                                Am
It's the end of the day, and there's nothing to do but go home
 C                                                 Am
Hang up the stethoscope, wrap yourself deep in that coat
 F                        C
Tell yourself everything's fine
           G                   F
As you're walking out of that door
     F                          C
The nurses can tell there's a weight on your mind
         G                    F
But you just wander quickly away


             C                 F         G        C
And they'll both be lonely tonight, and lonely tomorrow


 C                                           Am
Out on the train, the world simply passes you by
     C                                        Am
Sat facing a girl, who chatters the journey away
     F                       C
She asks what you did to your hand
          G                     F
And you bring out the normal excuse
         F                       C
There's dozens of stories you'd much rather tell
     G                          F
But stories are all that they'd be


(chorus):
          C            F      C        (Em)        F
('Cause) Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
   Am                     F
He had to return to the place he was from
          G                      F
But it's all just the same as before
             C                 F         G        C
And they'll both be lonely tonight, and lonely tomorrow


      C                                           Am   (G  Am)
It's ten o'clock in the morning, and you're not alone
   C                                         Am   (Asus4  Em)
Today's your day off, the same day as every year
      F                     C
Your cat pounces up on the table
      G                       F
She knows it's midsummer's day too
     F                          C
You head out the door with her held in your arms
         G               F       (C/E  Dm7  G/B)
Because nobody here can see her


(chorus)

   C                                       Am
A garden of silence is waiting here every time
    C                                       Am
An hour of peace and tranquility, only you wish to see her here instead
      F                       C
And right here another world lays undisturbed
          G                       F
Just a thought and a knife-edge apart
     F                       C
Two people, two daemons, a bench to themselves
     G                 F   (C/E  Dm7  G/B)
So close, yet so far away


(chorus, except last line)

 C            F      C         Em         F
Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
   Am                        F
A pine marten asks what the fuss is about
         G                         F
As that girl sits and looks from afar
          C                 F9         G7       C
And they won't be lonely tonight, nor lonely tomorrow


Nothing Ever Happens, lyrics © 2010 Matt Beswick (Soir)
license: CC 2.0 by-nc-sa (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk)