Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world
And mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain't so peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown? Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles,
And the captain crackles,
With the problems and the how's and why's
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down