moody Monday song for a rainy Tuesday

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 reason
Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need to be shown

Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

The telex machine is kept so clean
and it types to 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
No it ain't so neat to admit defeat,

They can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need to be shown

All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys awhile
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
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
Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need to die?

~ as covered by Tori Amos
orginally by the Boomtown Rats.

This track by the Boomtown Rats was inspired (lack of better word) by a 16 year old student who made headlines when she grabbed her father's gun and opened fire on her school from a house across the street, injuring eight students and killing the school's principal and custodian. When later asked why she'd gone on the shooting spree, she responded "I don't like Mondays."


Don't make me do it....