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The Boomtown Rats

I Don't Like Mondays

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I Don't Like Mondays was released on October 1, 1979 by Island Records as a part of the album The Fine Art of Surfacing

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OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Bob Geldof

Vocals

Pete Briquette

Bass

Gerry Cott

Guitar

Johnnie Fingers

Johnnie Fingers

Keyboards

Gary Roberts

Guitar

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Bob Geldof

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Phil Wainman

Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

The silicon chip inside her head

Get 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

'Cause there are no reasons

What reason do you need to be sure?

[Verse 2]

Oh, 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 Mondays

I wanna shoot the whole day down

[Verse 3]

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 sixteen ain't that peachy keen

Now, it ain't so neat to admit defeat

They can see no reasons

'Cause there are no reasons

What reasons do you need?

[Verse 4]

Oh, 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 Mondays

I wanna shoot the whole day down

Down, down

Shoot it all down

[Verse 5]

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 tackles with problems and the hows and whys

And he can see no reasons

'Cause there are no reasons

What reason do you need to die

Die?

[Verse 6]

Oh, oh, oh

And the silicone chip inside her head

Gets switched to overload

Oh, 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

'Cause there are no reasons

What reason do you need to be sure?

[Verse 7]

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 shoot the whole day down

Written by: Bob Geldof, Johnnie Fingers

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