lyrics 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 heavens sake!” i ran outside with neighbours 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 Und suddenly I'm listening to An answering machine, say: Too late! Too late! you shouldn’t oughta wait! cuz now you’re stuck, we wish you luck! here comes a 6.8 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 yea no fake? we kinda 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 How much more can we take we thought that we had seen it all but this one take the cake the dirt the rocks and all those aftershocks! it’s just the planets 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
Interesting: parts of the song are exact copies of a Dutch children song! Compare 1:38 with: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--IpQNVgptsc.html (piano version so it matches even better) Edit: ha, I made the exact same comment 3 years ago I see now! 😂
