lyrics from late 80's? I think its And the businessman buys a painting for the cost of a hospital wing?

Question

Ive tried google and a number of the lyrics databases no joy. It may be early 90's. I had thought it was the Hothouse Flowers but cant find it in their collection. Please please song and group. Its driving me insane

Answer 1

Nothing ever happens cant remeber who its by tho

Del Amitri just checked for you

Answer 2

Probably Del Amitri's Nothing Ever Happens

While American business men snap up Van Goghs for the price of a hospital wing

Answer 3

Del Amitri, Nothing ever happens.
While American businessmen snap up Van GoghsFor the price of a hospital wing

Answer 4

The song is: nothing ever happens by Del Amitri

and the lyric is

While american businessmen snap up van goghs
For the price of a hospital wing

Answer 5

I thought this was pretty funny.
Del Amitri's, "Nothing Ever Happens"
Misheard Lyrics:
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their clothes.
Original Lyrics:
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats.
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Del Amitri's, "Nothing Ever Happens"
Misheard Lyrics:
And secretaries turn off typewriters and take off their clothes.
Original Lyrics:
And sex with Terry turns off right fighters who get in their boats.
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Del Amitri's, "Nothing Ever Happens"

This is yours: =)
Misheard Lyrics:
While American business men snap up Van Goghs for the price of a hospital bin.
Original Lyrics:
While American business men snap up Van Goghs for the price of a hospital wing.
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Del Amitri's, "Nothing Ever Happens"
Misheard Lyrics:
While American business men snap up Van Goghs for the price of a hospital ring.
Original Lyrics:
While American business men snap up Van Goghs for the price of a hospital wing.
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Here's all the lyrics:
Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
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

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

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

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 carpark and no one would care


Close-circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same video every day
And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed
Just survive constant action replay

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

Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs
While angry from Manchester writes to complain about
All the repeats on T.V.
And computer terminals report some gains
On the values of copper and tin
While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs
For the price of a hospital wing

Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before
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

END

Answer 6

its del amitri nothing ever happens