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Post office clerk puts 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 gate 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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They will all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow |
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And 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 car park and no one would care |
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Closed circuit cameras in department stores |
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Shoot the same movies every day |
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And the stars of these films neither die or get killed |
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Just survive constant action replay |
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And 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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By five o'clock everything's dead |
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And every third car is a cab |
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Ignorant people sleep in their beds |
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Like the doped white mice in the college lab |
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And 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 |
