A Quake! A Quake! Lyrics - Singles - Animaniacs

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