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I Don't Like Mondays Lyrics

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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

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

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This was not the first school shooting! | Reviewer: Per | 4/2/12

Brenda Spencer lived across the street from the school, and she fired at the principal, the custodian, several kids and a police officer from her bedroom window! The principal died, and so did the custodian trying to help the principal. All of the victims were outside the school, yes, even the schoolground, as the principal was shot when he was unlocking the school gate.

So this was not a school shooting, even if the killed and maimed were on their way to school.

There has been several real school shootings before this, the most notable in 1966: Charles Joseph Whitman was a student at the University of Texas at Austin and a former Marine who killed 16 people and wounded 32 others during a shooting rampage on and around the university's campus on August 1, 1966.

Context: Geldof is as mutable as Gaga | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/6/11

Why the hate for Lady Gaga? Pop musicians --including Bob Geldof-- who have even the tiniest claim on popular memory after thirty years are exceedingly rare. Today Geldof is but a sliver of recognition in the brains of old folks like you, a few more years and he'll be gone just like you. Gaga is likely to run the same course, as are all the pop musicians of today. Context, friend, context.

A piece of our history | Reviewer: Phillo | 8/22/11

In a time before the written word songs were passed down generations and used as a method of recording history. This has been mostly lost to us now but there are still a few songs that fall into this category of markers in time, these should be applauded. I can assure you our children will not be debating over Lady Ga Ga lyrics in 30 years.

If some of the small minded people reviewing on this site had their way we would be burning our books and shooting newspaper reporters in the street. Well I suppose I have to agree with them on something.

Ahhh! it was Bob Geldof that made me shoot those journo's officer :-)

Awful! | Reviewer: rebecca | 7/6/11

When I first heard this song I fount it enjoyable but then when my brother told me the back story of the song I didn't find it so listenable but I still liked it, the girl was clearly troubled in her childhood but that no excuse or reason to of done that.
But Bob has made the statement that she didn't like mondays.... who does!

Sad but good | Reviewer: Ryan | 5/25/11

I remember my mom bought me a book about 500 rock bands and i read them out to her, after I said the boomtown rats she said that this was her favorite song when she was my age because it was not contraband in the uk. She put on the song on and I loved it. She did know that it was based of a school shooting, but she did not know anything else. I looked it up when i got home and saw a newscast on it and it was horrifying. THE FIRST SCHOOL shooting. and it was my favorite song since.

Old Memories | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/11/11

I remember when my mom and I would be driving along the road and this song would come on and she would shut off the radio and tell me that I was never to listen to this song. I later found out it was because Ms. Spencer (the woman who was the shooter) was one of my mom's good friends and my mom was devastated when she learnt about what happened.

Takes me back to living in london | Reviewer: heartinholland | 11/22/10

I lived in london when this happened. The song was written and reflective of a shocking event. It was the first school shooting, rather than the more frequent occurances of these times.

When Boomtown Rats sang it... we all took it more as, well....... its like how now living in America after 911 we took those songs as a being written and reflective of a shocking event. America seemed so far away. What did we know, really? We were only a bit older than she was, slogging along trying to find our own way. Working double shifts in factories before the sun came up, and not getting home from overtime until nearly midnight. Music, pubs and a few laughs when we weren't working........ the cares of the world were a bit beyond our reach at that age.

It has a great beat, a great melody and we sang along to it on the radio. It was the same time as Pink floyd's The Wall. Takes me back........

Get over it | Reviewer: Michael Jackson | 8/30/10

Apparently the kid just have a weak mind, there are a lot of kids/people in the planet who goes through the world with more pain and agony, the kid who actually cracked will crack no matter what situation. There is no mystery, some of us are more easily cracked than the stronger ones, so quit looking for a magical reason, people who kills other people has no real reason to do so, they just do because they are WEAK ! quit glorifying weak minded people. As far as the song goes,, its Awesome and if you feel like killing someone after hearing this song, start with yourself, waste yourself first because you are GARBAGE !

Possible Reason | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/3/10

I have a possible reason for the cause of the sad event. It may be the cause of most school shootings by students. They really are pushed to overload. When I was in college, I only made one year. But at the end I was so fustrated that I almost felt like I wanted to go on a rampage. Also one time when I was home. The virgina tech incident had acerd. I was so depressed and frustrated that I sympathized with cho understood why he did it and wanted to imitate him. Though I don't feel like that now. I can remember them and so can understand why some students may be driven to this.

I dont like Mondays - Perth WA | Reviewer: Lisa | 7/30/10

From what I hear here in western Australia, this song is about a teenage girl who shot dead two teachers and injured many others in a shooting spree at school. After further questioning, from Police, this young girl showed no remorce and no feelings for the lives she had taken. Her After countless hours of questioning her only reason for the outburst was "I dont like Mondays"

Sort of depressing | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/28/10

I never knew the meaning behind the song, until tonight. I am uncertain if teenagers should be listening to it or not, I heard it frequently when I was one, without ever hearing half the words.

My personal feeling with certain words much louder than others, "I don't like Mondays" "die" and the part about a silicon chip in someone's head overloading. Also the part about they can see no reason , there are no reasons. It may speak more based on the word emphasis, to some who are suicidal, I would guess.

Mondays | Reviewer: Marisa Ledesma | 7/18/10

I have researched and learned about this song. She took the lives of people and couldn't explain why. She did say she didn't like Mondays but it was later that she made this quote. I like this song and think that Sir Bob Geldoff made a something most people would have forgotten about and made it history. Sir Bob Geldoff is a genius in so many ways. If it weren't for him this tragic story would have been lost. I liked this song even beofore I learned about the sad event that inspired the lyrics.

i dont like mondays | Reviewer: ????? | 7/11/10

i luv the song its my fav.
now i know the story after the t.v biography on bob (i dont know weather that is his name) its clear to me and the next morning im serching stuff about it on tinternet (the internet)

sad | Reviewer: zoey | 6/13/10

i really like this song. i feel really sorry for the people who was killed and injured. and i feel sorry for the girl who did it, how can 16 yr old girl do that, it makes me sad just thinking about it. im 14 now i hope i dont go like that and if i see someone like it i well so hepl them cause i dont want it to happen again. we lean a lot for just one song :(

Listen and learn | Reviewer: Leanne | 6/10/10

This weekend gone, this song came on the radio when I was driving with my 10 year old son. I explained the events this song was based on. He listened quietly and intently, asked many questions, and looked at me with baffled, innocent eyes and asked if people like that, with broken brains really existed. He had learnt about the type of person he does not want to become.


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