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 filled 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
"Won't 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,
'Cause now you're stuck, we wish you luck,
here comes a six point-eight!"

Whose fault? whose fault?
Blame it on the fault!
'Cause Mr. Richter can't predict her
kicking our asphalt

Seismologists all say
tectonic plates are in between
An encroaching crustal mantle,
Yeah, so what the hecks that mean?!

It means a quake! a quake!
"Oh really, yeah no fake?
We kind of got that feeling
when the ground began to shake!"

And so, we wait,
resign ourselves to fate
because our lawn is sitting on
a continental plate

We shivered through a blizzard,
went swimming in a flood,
then we blew off a hurricane
and now we hear the thud

Of a quake! a quake!
How much more can we take?
We thought that we had seen it all
But this one takes the cake!

The dirt, the rocks,
those crazy after-shocks
It's just the planet moving granite
several city blocks

Now the town is falling down,
while the ground moves around,
We won't let it get us down
Get beneath the door frame!

A quake, a quake
It's time to pull up stake
"The worse is over!"
We don't buy it!
We're fed up we can't deny it
We just want some peace and quiet...

So we're moving to Beirut!!!!