Nothing Ever Happens

Post office clerk puts up a sign saying "Position Closed" and secretaries

Turn off typewriters and put on their coats.

Janitors padlock the gates for security guards to patrol and bachelors phone

Up their friends for a drink while the married ones turn on a chat show and

They'll 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 circut cameras in

Department stores shoot the same movie every day and the stars of these

Films neither die nor get killed, just survive constant action replay.

Repeat chorus

By five o'clock everything's dead and every third car is a cab. Ignorant

People sleep intheir beds like the doped white mice in the college lab.