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 'Cos there are no reasons What reason do you need to be show-ow-ow-ow-own?
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 shoo-oo-woo-woo-woo-oot 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 16 ain’t that peachy keen Now that ain’t so neat to admit defeat They can see no reasons 'Cuz there are no reasons What reasons do you need? Oh Oh oh 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 shoo-oo-oo-woo-woo-oot 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 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 tackles (With the problems of 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
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 'Cos there are no reasons What reason do you need to be show-ow-ow-ow-own?
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 shoo-oo-oo-woo-woo-woot the whole day down