It's a quiet peaceful night,

The moon is shinning bright,

Giving not a hint of what's in store...



A few hours before morning,

Without a single warning,

Something strange begins to move the floor...



A Quake! A Quake!

The house begins to shake

You're bouncing across the floor

And watching all your dishes break



You're sleeping there's a quake

You're instantly awake

You're leaping out of bed and shouting:

"Oh! For heaven's sake!"



I ran outside with neighbours,

Their faces fill with shocks

That's because I'm standing there in nothing but my socks

oops!



A quake! A quake!

This must be a mistake

Just feel the ground go up and down 

"Will someone hit the brake?"



A quake! A quake!

Oh what a mess the make!

The bricks, the walls, the chimney falls,

destruction it's wake



I did not have insurance

I called them from the scene

And suddenly I'm listening to an answering machine say:

"Too late, too late, you shouldn't ought to wait, 

cuz now you're stuck, we wish you luck, here comes a 6.8!" 



Whose fault? whose fault?

Blame it on the fault!

Cuz Mr. Richter can't predict they're kicking our asphalt



Seismologists all say tectonic plates are in between

And the incrute incrustal mantle,

Yeah, so what the hakes that means?!



It means a quake! a quake!

"Oh really, yeah no fake? 

We kind of had that feeling when the ground began to shake!"



And so, we wait, resign ourselves to fake

because our lawn is sitting on a continental plate

We shivered to a blizzard, went swimming on a flood,

then we blew out a hurriacane and now we're here a thought



Of a quake! a quake!

How much more can we take?

We thought that we had seeing all

But this one takes the cake!



The dirt, the rocks, 

those crazy after-shocks

It's just the planet moving around for several city blocks



Now the town is falling down, 

while the ground moves around,

We won't let it get us stamped

Get beneath the door frame!



A quake, a quake

It's time to pull up stake

"The worse is over!"

We don't bite it!

We just want some peace and quiet...



So we're moving to Beirut!!!!