The silicon chip inside her head
Got switched to overload
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 shown?

(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
I wanna shoot the whole day down

The telex machine is kept so clean
And it types to a waiting world
Her mother feels so shocked
Father's world is rocked
And their thoughts turned to their own little girl
Well sweet 16 ain't she peachy keen
And it ain't so neat to admit defeat
There could be (no reasons)
Because there are (no reasons)
What reasons do you need, oh

(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays
I am gonna shoot the whole day down, down, down
I'll shoot it all down

And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while
And school is out, oh and soon we will learn 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)
'Cause there are (no reasons)
What reasons do you need to die, die, oh

When 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 reason do you need to be shown

(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
I wanna shoot the whole day down