A Quake! A Quake!

Yakko: 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

W+D : Oops!

Yakko: 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

W+D : Oh really, yeah, no fake?

We kind of had that feeling

When the ground began to shake

Yakko: 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

*YW+D: Now the town is falling down

* While the ground

* Moves around

* We won't let it get us down

* Get beneath the door frame

Yakko: A quake, a quake

It's time to pull up stake

Dot : The worst is over

Y+W : We don't buy it

We're fed up

We can't deny it

We just want some peace and quiet

YW+D : So we're moving to Beirut!