This song is meant to remind me of one of my absolute favorite songs: "Nothing Ever Happens" by the Scottish Band Del Amitri. Unforgettable. I love it.


Nothing Ever Happens

This song is a poetic reflection on societal apathy, economic inequality, and the quiet routines that mask deeper moral failures. Through vivid scenes of everyday life—postal workers, landlords, auction rooms, and lovers—it explores how people carry on while injustice and suffering are ignored. The chorus repeats the haunting refrain “Nothing ever happens,” underscoring the theme of passive complicity. Art is commodified, mercy is measured in ledgers, and silence becomes a currency. The tone is melancholic yet precise, with lyrical imagery that evokes both intimacy and quiet outrage.

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Lyrics — Nothing Ever Happens

[Intro]  
Slowly, the city folds its day into the palms of night  
Streetlights hum, the windows glow, people move like passing light  

[Verse 1]  
Postmen trail their route of folded promises and mail  
Receptionists erase the day and lock another tale  
Janitors sweep up yesterday while sirens learn to sing  
A mother turns the volume up to quiet everything  

[Pre-Chorus]  
We count the seconds traded for a small untroubled sleep  
We barter quiet futures while the weary secrets keep  

[Chorus]  
Nothing ever happens, nothing wakes the sleeping town  
We watch the postcards burning and keep folding them down  
While someone pays for paintings, leaving hunger in the wings  
Nothing ever happens, nothing ever breaks these things  

[Verse 2]  
Kids learn the shapes of headlines from a grainy half-lit screen  
A landlord signs a dotted line and never sees between  
The gutters whisper stories that the daylight won't repeat  
Old men sell their memories to strangers on the street  

[Verse 3]  
The mayor smiles in glossy print, the bells are soft and slow  
Auction rooms collect the art that no one truly knows  
While hospitals keep tallying the cost of bones and beds  
The ledger eats the mercy, feeds the city with its led  

[Bridge]  
There is a quiet currency that buys the right to look away  
There is an invoice stamped with words we read but never pay  
Reach across the windowpane and feel the tremor of a hand  
We’re holding down our silence like a promise we had planned  

[Verse 4]  
Two lovers fold their letters and pretend tomorrow’s fine  
They pledge allegiance to the couch and drink the evening wine  
The world keeps spinning finer threads of someone else’s gain  
While the canvas hangs in darkness—sold to silence, sold to pain  

[Interlude]  
(Instrumental)  

[Reprise]  
Nothing ever happens, nothing happens in the light  
We polish up our excuses and we tuck the wrongs from sight  
While gilded frames keep changing hands above the city noise  
We nod and keep on moving as if we had no choice  

[Outro]  
The lamps go out one by one, the streets fold into sleep  
Somewhere a bell keeps tolling for the debts we never keep  
Nothing ever happens, yet the world remembers still  
A single unpaid verdict waiting on a windowsill  

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Nothing ever Happens

不息之河 (《勇士》电影主题曲) - TFBOYS
词：王海涛
曲：杨坤/曲世聪/宋睿
合：
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
胸膛
凯：
洇出血色的光芒
冰冷的灰色桥上
用眉头 迎着冷枪
合：
Oh肩头
源：
黑夜里顶着枪口
胸口在自由宣告
你要的 不是哀悼
合：
你的美丽
玺：
来自无穷的勇气
鲜血滋养了土地
长出了
长出了永恒奇异的花
合：
勇士的心
带着耀眼的伤疤
弹孔布满的身体
闪烁在
闪烁在 奔流不息的河
苍穹之下
合：
黎明
玺：
敲过晚钟的街头
响起挽歌的前奏
流荡在 江河四周
合：
Oh 双手
凯：
就算捆在了身后
心跳也没了节奏
你依旧 活在以后
合：
你的美丽
源：
来自无穷的勇气
鲜血滋养了土地
长出了
长出了永恒奇异的花
合：
勇士的心
带着耀眼的伤疤
弹孔布满的身体
闪烁在
闪烁在 奔流不息的河
你的美丽
来自无穷的勇气
鲜血滋养了土地
长出了
长出了永恒奇异的花
勇士的心
带着耀眼的伤疤
弹孔布满的身体
闪烁在
闪烁在 奔流不息的河
苍穹之下

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