Key:
Introduction:
C Am7
Post office clerks put up signs saying 'Position Closed'
C Am7
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
F C G F
Janitors padlock the gates for security guards to patrol
C
And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink
G F
While the married ones turn on a chat show
C F C
And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
C Am7
'Gentlemen, time please, you know we can't serve any more'
C Am7
Now the traffic lights change to stop when there's nothing to go
F C
And by five o' clock everything's dead
G F
And every third car is a cab,
C
And ignorant people sleep in their beds
G F
Like the doped white mice in the college lab
C F C F
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all:
Am F
The needle returns to the start of the song
G F
And we all sing along like before
C F C
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
C G/B Am7
Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody there
C Am7
The Martians could land in the car park and no one would care
F C
The close-circuit cameras in department stores
G F
Shoot the same movie everyday
C
And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed
G F C/E Dm G/B
Just survive constant action replay
C F C F
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all:
Am F
The needle returns to the start of the song
G F
And we all sing along like before
C F C
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
C Am7
And bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs
C Am7
While 'Angry from Manchester' writes to complain about all the repeats on TV
F C
And computer terminals report
G F
Some gains on the values of copper and tin,
C
While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs
G F C/E Dm G/B
For the price of a hospital wing
C F C F
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all:
Am F
The needle returns to the start of the song
G F
And we all sing along like before
C F C F
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all:
Am F
They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock
G F
And we'll all go along like before:
C F C
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow.