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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
Prechorus
And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
Verse 2
Gentlemen time please you know we can't serve any more
Now the traffic lights stop when theres nothing to go
And by five o clock everythings dead
And every third car is a cab
And ignorant people sleep in there beds
Like the dope white mice in the college lab
Chorus
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 theres nobody there
The martians could land in the car park and no-one would care
Close-circuit cameras in department stores
Shoot the same movie every night
And the stars of these films neither died nor get killed
Just to survive constant action replay
Chorus
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
Then before verse 4 there's a wee instrumentally bit over the chords:
Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs
While angry from Manchester writes to complain about ll the repeats on tv
And computer terminals report some gains
On the value of copper and tin
While American businessmen snap up van Goths
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