intro
Chords C
C Post office clerks put up signs saying 'Position Am7 Closed'
C And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on theirAm7 coats
F Janitors padlock the C gates for G security guards to F patrol
And bachelors phone up their C friends for a drink
While G the married ones turn on a F chat show
And they'll C all be lonely to-Fnight and lonely to-Cmorrow
C 'Gentlemen, time please, you know we can't serve any Am7 more'
C Now the traffic lights change to stop when there's nothing to Am7 go
F And by five o' clock everything's C dead and every G third car is a F cab,
And ignorant people C sleep in their beds
Like theG doped white mice in the F college lab
Chorus
C And nothing ever F happens, C nothing happensF at 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 to-Fnight and lonely to-Cmorrow
C Telephone exchanges click while there's nobody Am7 there
C The Martians could land in the car park and no one would Am7 care
The F close-circuit cameras in C department stores
Shoot the G same movie every F day
And the stars of these films neither C die nor get killed
Just G survive constant F action replay
C And nothing ever F happens, C nothing happensF at 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 to-Fnight and lonely to-Cmorrow
D Am7 D Am7 C D C D C
C And bill hoardings advertise products that nobody Am7 needs
C While 'Angry from Manchester' writes to complain about Am7 all the repeats on TV;
And F computer terminals C report some gains on the G values of copper and F tin,
While American businessmen C snap up Van Goghs for the G price of a hospital F wing
C And nothing ever F happens, C nothing happensF at 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 to-Fnight and lonely to-Cmorrow
Slow on last line
C And nothing ever F happens, C nothing happensF at all
They'll Am burn down the synagogues F at six o'clock
And we'll G all go along like F before
And we'll C all be lonely to-Fnight and lonely to-Cmorrow