Original subtitles

YAKKO: This is the city, Los Angeles, California.

On a starlit winter 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 its wake ♪

♪ I did not have insurance ♪

♪ So I called them From the scene ♪

♪ And suddenly I'm listening to ♪

♪ An answering machine say ♪

♪ Too late, too late You shouldn't oughta wait ♪

♪ 'Cause now you're stuck We wish you luck ♪

♪ Here comes a 6.8 ♪

♪ Who's fault? Who's fault? ♪

♪ The San Andreas' fault ♪

♪ 'Cause Mr. 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 ♪

DOT & WAKKO: ♪ Oh, really, yeah, no fake? ♪

♪ We kind of had that feeling ♪

♪ When the ground Began to shake ♪

♪ California's great It's such a lovely state ♪

♪ And 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 then now We hear this thud ♪

♪ Of a quake, a quake ♪

ALL: ♪ 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 ♪

ALL: ♪ It's just the planet Moving granite ♪

♪ Several city blocks ♪

♪ L.A. 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 ♪

ALL: ♪ We want some place With peace and quiet ♪

♪ So we're moving to Beirut ♪

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ALL: Go nuts!