I Don't Like Mondays (album version)

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 reasons 'cause there are no reasons.
What reasons 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 wanna shoot, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
The whole day down.
The Telex machine is kept so clean
And 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 sixteen, ain't that peachy keen.
Now that ain't so neat to admit defeat.
They can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons.
What reasons do you need?
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
(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 wanna shoot, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
The whole day down, down, down.
Shoot it all down.
And all the playing's stopped in the playground now.
She wants to play with the toys for a while.
And school's out early and we'll soon be learning.
And the lesson today is how to die.
And then bullhorn crackles and the captain tackles
With the problems of the hows and whys.
And he can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons.
What reasons do you need to die?
Die, oh.
And the silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload.
Oh, 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 reasons 'cause there are no reasons.
What reasons 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, I don't like,
(Tell me why.) I don't like Mondays.
(Tell me why.) I don't like, I don't like,
(Tell me why.) I don't like Mondays.
(Tell me why.) I don't like Mondays.
I wanna shoot, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
The whole day down.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.