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[ti:Nothing Ever Happens] |
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[ar:Otto] |
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Post office clerks put 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 gates |
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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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And they'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow |
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Gentlemen time please,you know we can't serve anymore |
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Now the traffic lights change to stop,when there's nothing to go |
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And by five o'clock everything's dead |
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And every third car is a cab |
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And ignorant people sleep in their beds |
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Like the doped white mice in the college lab |
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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 carpark and no one would care |
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Close-circuit cameras in department stores shoot the same video every day |
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And the stars of these films neither die nor get killed |
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Just survive constant action replay |
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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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Bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs |
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While angry from Manchester writes to complain about |
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All the repeats on T.V. |
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And computer terminals report some gains |
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On the values of copper and tin |
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While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs |
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For the price of a hospital wing |
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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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Nothing ever happens,nothing happens at all |
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They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock |
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And we'll all go along like before |
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And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow |