Post office clerk puts up signs saying "Position closed"
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And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats
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Janitors padlock the gate for security guards to patrol
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And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink
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While the married ones turn on a chat show
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They will all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
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And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
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The needle returns to the start of the song
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And we all sing along like before
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And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
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Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody there
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The Martians could land in the car park and no one would care
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Closed circuit cameras in department stores
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Shoot the same movies every day
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And the stars of these films neither die or get killed
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Just survive constant action replay
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And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
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The needle returns to the start of the song
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And we all sing along like before
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And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
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By five o'clock everything's dead
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And every third car is a cab
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Ignorant people sleep in their beds
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Like the doped white mice in the college lab
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And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
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The needle returns to the start of the song
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And we all sing along like before
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And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
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Nothing Ever Happens
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Manfred Mann's Earth Band |