It's a quiet, peaceful night, the moon is shining 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 'cross 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 neighbors   Their faces full of 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 they make   The bricks, the walls, the chimney falls   Destruction in its 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 Mister Richter can't predict her   Kicking our asphalt      Seismologists all say   Tectonic plates are in between   An encroaching crustal mantle   Yeah, so what the heck's that mean?      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 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 a 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 aftershocks   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 worst 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