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 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 shooo-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? 

(**) 

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 And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons What reason do you need to die, die?

This is about Brenda Spencer, a 16-year-old San Diego high school studentl. On Monday, January 29, 1979, she opened fire on the school with a rifle, killing 2 adults and injuring 9 kids before going back to her home. Police surrounded her home and waited for 7 hours until she gave herself up. When asked why she did it, she replied, "I just started shooting, that's it. I just did it for the fun of it. I just don't like Mondays. I just did it because it's a way to cheer the day up. Nobody likes Mondays." (songfacts)