Post office clerk puts up signs saying "Position closed"   And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats   Janitors padlock the gate for security guards to patrol   And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink   While the married ones turn on a chat show   They will all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow   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   Closed circuit cameras in department stores   Shoot the same movies 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   By five o'clock everything's dead   And every third car is a cab   Ignorant people sleep in their beds   Like the doped white mice in the college 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