VERSE 1:
[A#] Post office clerks put up signs saying position [Gm] closed.
[A#] Secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their [Gm] coats.
[Eb] Janitors padlock the [A#] gates, for [F] security guards to [Eb] patrol,
And [Eb] bachelors phone up their [A#] friends for a drink,
While the [F] married ones turn on a [Eb] chat show;
And they'll [A#] all be lonely [Eb] tonight and lonely [A#] tomorrow

VERSE 2:
[A#] Gentlemen time please, you know we can't serve any-[Gm]-more,
Now the [A#] traffic lights change to stop, when there's nothing to [Gm] go
And by [Eb] five o'clock everything's [A#] dead, and [F] every third car is a [Eb] cab,
And ignorant people [A#] sleep in their bed,
Like the [F] doped white mice in the college [Eb] lab

CHORUS:
And [A#] nothing ever [Eb] happens, [A#] nothing happens at [Eb] all,
The [Gm] needle returns to the [Eb] start of the song,
And we [F] all sing along like [Eb] before,
And we'll [A#] all be lonely [Eb] tonight and lonely [A#] tomorrow

VERSE 3:
[A#] Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody [Gm] there.
The [A#] Martians could land in the car park, and no one would [Gm] care.
[Eb] Close-circuit cameras in depart-[A#]-ment stores,
Shoot the [F] same movie every-[Eb]-day,
And the stars of these films neither [A#] die nor get killed just
Sur-[F]-vive constant action re-[Eb]-play

REPEAT CHORUS:

VERSE 4:
[A#] Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody [Gm] needs,
While [A#] angry from Manchester writes to complain about all the REPEATs on [Gm] TV.
[Eb] Computer terminals report some [A#] gains, in the [F] values of copper and [Eb] tin,
While American businessmen [A#] snap up Van Gogh's,
For the [F] price of a hospital [Eb] wing

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]