Animaniacs, Tress MacNeille, Jess Harnell, Rob Paulsen - A Quake! A Quake! lyrics

This is the city: Los Angeles, California

On a starlit winter's night
When the moon was shining bright
Back in January of 1994
At 4: 30 in the morning
And without a single warning
Something strange began 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 filled with shock
That's because I'm standing there
In nothing but my socks

Oh, a quake, a quake
Say, it's all a big 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 it's wake!

I did not have insurance
So I called them from the scene
Und suddenly I'm listening to
An answering machine, saying

Too late! Too late!
You shouldn't oughta wait!
So now you're stuck, we wish you luck!
Here comes a 68! Whose fault? Whose fault?
The San Andreas' 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 kinda had that feeling
When the ground began to shake!
California's great!
It's such a lovely state!
'Cause every lawn Is sitting on
A continental plate!

Los Angeles had fires and a riot and a flood
And then a drought and a recession
And now we hear this 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
And all those aftershocks!
It's just the planet moving granite
Several city blocks!

LA town is falling down
While the ground moves around!
We won't let it get us down
We're Californians!

A quake, a quake it's time to pull up stake
We're all fed up, we can't deny it!
Fires, quakes, and floods, and riot!
We want someplace with peace and quiet
So we're moving to Beirut!