I Don't Like Mondays

"Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing"

-Luke 23:34

I Don't Like Mondays

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 as 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.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

The telex machine is kept so clean
As 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 so peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat.
They can see no reasons
'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.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

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 crackles,
With the problems and the how's and why's.
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die?

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 want to shoot
The whole day down.

- Bob Geldof

The British band, The Boomtown Rats, were at a US radio station,
preparing for an on-air interview, when the story of 16 year old
Brenda Spencer came over the news wire. The California high school
student had grabbed her father's gun and opened fire on her school
from a house across the street, she injured eight students and killed
the school's principal and custodian.

When she was asked why she'd gone on the shooting spree, she
responded "I don't like Mondays.

That rare event occurred in 1979. But events like it are becoming all to common these days.


I pray to God that more people will understand that God gave us
Sundays so that we could better deal with Mondays!!

O God of spirits and of all flesh,
You trampled Death and broke the
power of Satan, and granted life to Your world.
Now grant rest,
O Lord, to the souls of Your departed servants,
in a place of light, joy, and peace,
where there is no pain, sorrow, or mourning.

For You are the resurrection, the life,
and the repose of Your departed servants, O Christ our God,
and we glofify You
together with Your eternal Father,
and Your all-holy, gracious, and life-giving Spirit,
now and ever, and forever.

Amen

 May God preserve forever the memory of those who lost their lives at Virginia Tech and all places in the world.