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 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
i don't like
i don't like
i don't like mondays
tell me why
i don't like mondays
i want to shoot
the whole day down, down, down
shoot it all down
heeyeea

and the playing 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
the lesson today is how to die

and then the bullhorn cackles
and the captain tackles
with the problems and the how's and why's
and he can see no reason
'cause there are no reasons
what reason do you need to die, die, ohhh

tell me why
i don't like mondays
tell me why
i don't like mondays
i don't like
i don't like
i don't like mondays
tell me why
i don't like mondays
tell me why
i don't like mondays
i don't like
i don't like
i don't like mondays
ooohmmm
i don't like mondays...no...

i wanna to shoot
the whole day down
whole day...
whole day....
the whole day down



The following track, I Don�t Like Mondays, is a companion song to its predecessor. This number also deals with gun-control issues and was originally based off an infamous San Diego shooting in 1979. Amos says the song "was sung from the point of view of the cop who went to the school that day, because I couldn�t hold the essence of the person who went and killed everybody. I had to be able to hold something in a structure of women, or I couldn�t be in the chair for them." Amos says that she wanted to give the song a �childlike effect... I didn�t believe that this [convicted felon] was a �bad seed.� So I wanted to create it in this sort of shattered playground world."
-- Tori; ICE Magazine, Sept 2001