It's a quiet, peaceful night, the moon is shining bright<br />
Giving not a hint of what's in store<br />
A few hours before morning without a single warning<br />
Something strange begins to move the floor<br />
<br />
A quake, a quake<br />
The house begins to shake<br />
You're bouncing 'cross the floor<br />
And watching all your dishes break<br />
<br />
You're sleeping, there's a quake<br />
You're instantly awake<br />
You're leaping out of bed<br />
And shouting, "Oh, for heaven's sake"<br />
<br />
I ran outside with neighbors<br />
Their faces full of shocks<br />
That's because I'm standing there<br />
In nothing but my socks<br />
<br />
Oops, a quake, a quake<br />
This must be a mistake<br />
Just feel the ground go up and down<br />
Won't someone hit the brake?<br />
<br />
A quake, a quake<br />
Oh, what a mess they make<br />
The bricks, the walls, the chimney falls<br />
Destruction in its wake<br />
<br />
I did not have insurance<br />
I called them from the scene<br />
And suddenly I'm listening<br />
To an answering machine<br />
<br />
Say, "Too late, too late<br />
You shouldn't ought to wait<br />
'Cause now you're stuck, we wish you luck<br />
Here comes a six point eight"<br />
<br />
Whose fault, whose fault?<br />
Blame it on the fault<br />
'Cause Mister Richter can't predict her<br />
Kicking our asphalt<br />
<br />
Seismologists all say<br />
Tectonic plates are in between<br />
An encroaching crustal mantle<br />
Yeah, so what the heck's that mean?<br />
<br />
It means a quake, a quake<br />
Oh really, yeah, no fake<br />
We kind of had that feeling<br />
When the ground began to shake<br />
<br />
And so we wait<br />
Resign ourselves to fate<br />
Because our lawn<br />
Is sitting on a continental plate<br />
<br />
We shivered through a blizzard<br />
Went swimming in a flood<br />
Then we blew off a hurricane<br />
And now we hear a thud<br />
<br />
Of a quake, a quake<br />
How much more can we take?<br />
We thought that we had seen it all<br />
But this one takes the cake<br />
<br />
The dirt, the rocks<br />
Those crazy aftershocks<br />
It's just the planet moving granite<br />
Several city blocks<br />
<br />
Now the town is falling down<br />
While the ground moves around<br />
We won't let it get us down<br />
Get beneath the door frame<br />
<br />
A quake, a quake<br />
It's time to pull up stake<br />
The worst is over, we don't buy it<br />
We're fed up, we can't deny it<br />
We just want some peace and quiet<br />
So we're moving to Beirut