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
    [Chorus:]
  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
    [Repeat Chorus]
    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
    [Repeat Chorus]