"Nothing Ever Happens" is a song by the Scottish rock band Del Amitri

Del Amitri

Del Amitri were a Scottish pop-rock guitar band, formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1983. The band grew out of Justin Currie's Jordanhill College School band and came together after teenager Currie placed an advertisement in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to contact him...

. Released as a single between late 1989 and early 1990, it reached #11 in the UK charts (it was the band's biggest hit in the UK), and was a top-10 hit in Ireland, peaking at #4. It is the last track on the album Waking Hours

Waking Hours

Waking Hours is the second studio album by Del Amitri, released in July 1989. It reached number 6 in the UK Albums Chart and featured one of the band's most famous songs, "Nothing Ever Happens", which reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart...

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Lyrics and Composition

The song deals with the banality of everyday life, with the refrain "and we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow." Its commentary relates to how oblivious most of us are to the world around us e.g. "the Martians could land in the car park and no one would care" but in its last line before the chorus gets suddenly cynical..."they'll burn down the Synagogues at six o'clock and we'll all go along like before."

Track listing

A-side

• "Nothing Ever Happens"

B-side

• "So Many Souls To Change"
• "Don't I Look Like The Kind Of Guy You Used To Hate"
• "Evidence"