The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to 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
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays (x3)
I wanna shoot
The whole day down

The Telex machine is kept so clean
As 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
No it ain't so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need

(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays (x3)
I wanna shoot
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 her toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain crackles
With the problems and the how's and why's
And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die die oh-oh-oh

And the silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to 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
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

(Tell me why) I don't like Mondays (x2)
(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 (x2)
I wanna shoot
The whole day down

Written by BOB GELDOF