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