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

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

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

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

REPEAT CHORUS:

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

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]