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

The traffic light 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 collage 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

Close circuit cameras in department stores

Shoot the same movie every day

And the stars of these films neither die or 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 boarding advertise products that nobody needs

While angry from Manchester writes to complain about

All the repeats on TV

Computer terminals report some gains

For the value 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

The'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock

And we all go along like before

And we'll all be lonley tonight and lonely tomorrow

And we'll all be lonley tonight and lonely tomorrow