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!!!!
