Song of the Week: I Don't Like Monday's

This weeks 'song of the week' is I Don't Like Monday's. Written by Bob Geldof and performed by his group, the Boomtown Rats, the song was number 1 on the UK pop charts for four weeks in July 1979. The song was inspired by a report Geldof read about the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer. Spencer shot at children playing in a school playground across the street from her house and ended up killing two adults and injured eight children and one police officer. As the report on the song on Wikipedia notes [see the link above], Spencer showed no remorse for her crime, and her only explanation for her actions when captured was "I don't like Mondays."

I Don't Like Mondays:
Boomtown Rats

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 as good as gold.
And he can see no reason
'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 Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to 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 16 ain't so peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat.
They 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 Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

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
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die?

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.