{"id":52,"date":"2016-08-21T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2016-07-03T16:21:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:21:40","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-nothing-ever-happens-del-amitri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/21\/lyric-of-the-week-nothing-ever-happens-del-amitri\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week: Nothing Ever Happens (Del Amitri)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lyric<\/a>Being the ninth Lyric of the Week, I thought this week’s song should be about nothing<\/em> (the theme for this week’s Nickel Quiz was “Nein,” which is German for “no”). While Del Amitri is better known for songs like Roll To Me<\/em><\/a> and Not Where It’s At<\/em><\/a>, this is the song that gets me singing along in the car every time it comes up randomly on the iPod.<\/p>\n

Enjoy Nothing Ever Happens<\/em><\/a> by Del Amitri<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Post office clerks put up signs saying ‘position closed’<\/em>
\nAnd secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats<\/em>
\nAnd janitors padlock the gates<\/em>
\nFor security guards to patrol<\/em>
\nAnd bachelors phone up their friends for a drink<\/em>
\nWhile the married ones turn on a chat show<\/em><\/p>\n

And they’ll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow<\/em><\/p>\n

Gentlemen time please, you know we can’t serve anymore<\/em>
\nNow the traffic lights change to stop, when there’s nothing to go<\/em>
\nAnd by five o’clock everything’s dead<\/em>
\nAnd every third car is a cab<\/em>
\nAnd ignorant people sleep in their beds<\/em>
\nLike the doped white mice in the college lab<\/em><\/p>\n

And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all<\/em>
\nThe needle returns to the start of the song<\/em>
\nAnd we all sing along like before<\/em><\/p>\n

And we’ll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow<\/em><\/p>\n

Telephone exchanges click while there’s nobody there<\/em>
\nThe Martians could land in the car park and no one would care<\/em>
\nClosed-circuit cameras in department stores<\/em>
\nShoot the same movie every day<\/em>
\nAnd the stars of these films neither die nor get killed<\/em>
\nJust survive constant action replay<\/em><\/p>\n

And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all<\/em>
\nThe needle returns to the start of the song<\/em>
\nAnd we all sing along like before<\/em><\/p>\n

And we’ll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow<\/em><\/p>\n

And bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs<\/em>
\nWhile “Angry from Manchester” writes to complain about<\/em>
\nAll the repeats on TV<\/em>
\nComputer terminals report some gains in the values of copper and tin<\/em>
\nWhile American businessmen snap up Van Goghs<\/em>
\nFor the price of a hospital wing<\/em><\/p>\n

And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all<\/em>
\nThe needle returns to the start of the song<\/em>
\nAnd we all sing along like before<\/em><\/p>\n

And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all<\/em>
\nThey’ll burn down the synagogues at six o’clock<\/em>
\nAnd we’ll all go along like before<\/em><\/p>\n

And we’ll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

If you have a favorite song that features entertaining lyrics which you’d like to see featured as a Lyric of the Week<\/strong>, drop me a line in the comments (or email me at ed@suitcasefullofdimes.com<\/a>) and tell me what you find special about the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being the ninth Lyric of the Week, I thought this week’s song should be about nothing (the theme for this week’s Nickel Quiz was “Nein,” which is German for “no”). While Del Amitri is better known for songs like Roll To Me and Not Where It’s At, this is the song that gets me singing … Continue reading Lyric of the Week: Nothing Ever Happens (Del Amitri)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyric-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F88I-Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}