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