Lyrics

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 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
’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
I don’t like
I don’t like
I don’t like Mondays
tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I wanna shoot
the whole day down, down, down
shoot it all down
hey, yeah
hey, yeah

and the playing 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
the lesson today is how to die

and then the bullhorn cackles
and the captain tackles
with the problems and the how’s and why’s
and he can see no reason
’cause there are no reasons
what reason do you need to die, die, oh, oh

Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I don’t like
I don’t like
I don’t like Mondays
tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I don’t like
I don’t like
I don’t like Mondays

Ooh
I don’t like Mondays ... no

I wanna shoot
the whole day down
whole day
whole day
the whole day
down.

— Bob Geldof/The Boomtown Rats

Nods to Patti for knowing more about this song than I had an idea about.

I have never heard the Boomtown Rats’ version but hope to soon. Though I think Tori’s voice is perfect for the song. And now that I think about it, Patti is also the one who turned me on to Tori’s music in the first place.