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I Don't Like Mondays Lyrics

Artist: Boomtown Rats
Album: The Fine Art Of Surfacing

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

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

The telex machine is kept so clean
and it types to 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 that peachy keen
No it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
They can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need to be shown

Repeat Chorus

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

Repeat Chorus

lyrics and music by Bob Geldof
taken from the album "The Fine Art of Surfacing"

Comments/Interpretations

by abigail on 6/19/2008 2:09pm
apparently there was a girl whos mother died and she shot 1 person on a monday, which is the day her mother died. its really sad.

by Nick on 1/16/2009 4:21pm
Not exactly. This 16 year old girl in San Diego shot up the school opposite her house coz she didn't like Mondays and wanted to 'liven up the day'. Killed 2 kids, injured 8 kids and a police officer. Happened 19th January, 1979. She comes up for parole again in 2009.