Nothing Ever Happens (Currie) - Friends Of Carlotta
Post office clerks put up signs
Saying position closed
And secretaries turn off typewriters
And put on their coats
And 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 gentlemen time please
You know we can't serve anymore
Now the traffic lights change to stop
When there's nothing to go
And by five O' clock everything's dead
And every third car is a cab
And ignorant people sleep in their beds
Like the doped white mice in the college labs
And nothing ever happens
Nothing happens at all
Well 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
And telephone exchanges click
While there's nobody there
Now the Martians could land in the car park
And no one would care
And closed-circuit 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
And nothing ever happens nothing happens at all
Well 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
Now bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs
While angry from Manchester writes to complain about
All the repeats on T V
And computer terminals
Report some gains on the values of copper and tin
While American businessmen snap up Van Goghs
For the price of a hospital wing
And nothing ever happens
Nothing happens at all
Well the needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before
And nothing ever happens
Nothing happens at all
They'll burn down the synagogues at six O' clock
And we'll all go along like before
And we'll all be lonely tonight
And lonely tomorrow
Yes we'll all be lonely tonight
And lonely tomorrow
And we'll all be lonely tonight
And lonely tomorrow