Song&Poetry

"I Don't Like Mondays"

by The 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 shown?

 

 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

 

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?

Oh Oh oh whoa whoa

 

 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

 

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

(With the problems of the how's and why's)

And he can see no reasons

 'Cos there are no reasons 

What reason do you need to die, die?

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 

 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

First, there is refrain like “Tell me why/ I don’t like Mondays”. It uses these two sentences shows the detail of the whole story. And though the whole song, these two sentences keep remind us how weird was the answer she gave for kill someone. Second, there is connection like “And the lesson today is how to die”. Because no one teach how to die in class, so this connect the lesson to get killed. And use “lesson” this word is because that day is Monday, and Monday was the reason she gave for why she killed. In another reason, we can know the people got killed was those people who should have class like every normal day. Final, there is metaphor like “The silicon chip inside her head/ Gets switched to overload”. There will not have any silicon chip inside anyone’s head in normal. Just like telling her head is like a machine, and too much learning makes her head overload. There are elements of poetry as refrain, connection and metaphor to explain the true story of a sixteen girl in this song.