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 reason do you need to be sure 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 and it types to a waiting world a mother feels so shocked father's world is rocked and their thoughts turn to their own little girl sweet 16 ain't that beat cheeky no that ain't so neat to admit defeat they can see no reasons cause there are no reasons what reasons do you need 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 oh the whole day down down down do and now the plane stopped in the playground now she wants to play with the toys awhile and school's out early and soon we'll be learning and the lesson today is how to die and then the bull horn crackles and the captain tackles with the problems in the house and wife and he can see no reasons because there are no reasons what reason 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 because there are no reasons what reason do you need to be sure 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 want to shoot the whole day down oh you