Guest TheBlueCat Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 I played (on a guitar with me singing) Del Amitri's "Nothing Ever Happens" to someone I thought I knew reasonably well the other day. She listened to it and, very seriously, asked me if it was an anti-Semitic song. I'm used to people telling me in various ways, some more subtle than others, that I'm not a great musician but that response left me pretty much stumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 How is Shami Chakrabarti doing anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turned Out Nice Again Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 I had to google the lyrics... There is a line near the end about burning down synagogues. Taken in isolation that could be seen as anti-Semitic ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Talking of WTF moments. I was just about to add this song on the forgotten gems thread before I clicked on this one. No shit !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Whoops google is now into lyrics Lyrics Post office clerks put up signs saying 'position closed' And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats And 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 And 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 car park and no one would care Closed-circuit cameras in department stores Shoot the same movie every day And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed Just survive constant action replay And 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 And bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs While "Angry from Manchester" writes to complain about All the repeats on TV Computer terminals report some gains in the values of copper and tin While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs For the price of a hospital wing And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all The needle returns to the start of the song And we all sing along like before And 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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