Karaoké Nothing Ever Happens Del Amitri

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

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 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

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 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

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 bill hoardings advertise products that nobody needs

While Angry from Manchester writes to complain about all the repeats on TV

And computer terminals report some gains in the values of copper and tin

While American businessman snap up Van Goghs for the price of a hospital wing

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 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