Nothing Ever Happens

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 call-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 when 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 movie as every day And the stars of these films neither die or get killed They survive constant action replays 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 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 We will all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow (Nothing happens, happens at all) Oh-oh, oh-oh (Nothing happens) Nothing ever happens (Happens at all) (Nothing ever happens) (Nothing happens at all) (Nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all) (Nothing ever happens)