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Intro: D – D – D – D
Verse 1:
RE SIm
Post office clerks put up signs saying position closed
RE SIm
And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
SOL RE
Janitors padlock the gates
LA SOL
For security guards to patrol
SOL RE
And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink
LA SOL
While the married ones turn on a chat show
RE SOL RE
And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
Verse 2:
RE SIm
Gentlemen time please, you know we can't serve anymore
RE SIm
Now the traffic lights change to stop, when there's nothing to go
SOL RE
And by five o'clock everything's dead
LA SOL
And every third car is a cab
SOL RE
And ignorant people sleep in their beds
LA SOL
Like the doped white mice in the college lab
Chorus
RE SOL RE SOL
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
RE SIm
The needle returns to the start of the song
LA SOL
And we all sing along like before
RE SOL RE
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
Verse 3:
RE SIm
Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody there
RE SIm
The Martians could land in the car park and no one would care
SOL RE LA SOL
Close-circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same video every day
SOL RE
And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed
LA SOL
Just survive constant action replay
Chorus
RE SOL RE SOL
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
RE SIm
The needle returns to the start of the song
LA SOL
And we all sing along like before
RE SOL RE
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
Interlude:
Em – G – Em – G – D – G – D – G - A
Verse 4:
RE SIm
Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs
RE
While angry from Manchester writes to complain about
SIm
All the repeats on T.V.
SOL RE
And computer terminals report some gains
LA SOL
On the values of copper and tin
SOL RE
While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs
LA SOL
For the price of a hospital wing
Chorus
RE SOL RE SOL
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
RE SIm
The needle returns to the start of the song
LA SOL
And we all sing along like before
RE SOL RE SOL
No nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
RE SIm
They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock
LA SOL
And we all sing along like before
RE SOL RE
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
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