Post office
clerks put up signs
saying position closed
And secretaries turn off their laptops
and powder their nose
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 any more
Now the traffic lights 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 dope white mice in the col
lege lab
And we'll all be lonely tonight,
lonely tomorrow
Telephone exchanges click
while there's nobody
The Martians could land in the car park
and no one would care
CCTV in department stores
shoot the same video every day
And the stars of these films
neither die nor get killed
Just survive constant action replay
And nothing ever happens,
nothing happens at all
The needle only turns to
the start of the song
And we'll all sing along like before
And we'll all be lonely tonight,
lonely tomorrow
And Bill Bull has advertised products
that nobody needs
While Angry from Manchester writes
to complain about all the repeats on TV
The stock exchange reports some gains
on the values of copper and tin
While American businessmen
snap up fang -offs
for the price of a hospital wing
But nothing ever happens,
nothing happens at all
The needle returns to
the start of the song
and we'll all sing along like before
And nothing ever happens,
nothing happens at all
They'll burn down their mosques
at six o 'clock
And we'll all go along like be fore
And we'll all be lonely tonight
and lonely tomorrow you