THIS IS HOW THEY PLAY IT. GOT IT FROM A BOOK. CAPO:5TH FRET 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 'Gentlemen, time please, you know we can't serve any more' 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 there beds Like the doped 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 there's nobody there The Martians could land in the car park and no one could care The close-circuit cameras in department stores Shoot the same movie everyday And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed Just to survive constant action replay BRIDGE: Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs While 'Angry from Manchester' writes to complain about all the repeats on TV; 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