dental torture blues

Sitting in the dental chair
Undergoing dental surgery
While the dentist probes
And tortures me
With his instruments of pain
 
The Frank Zappa song plays over and over
The torture never stops
The torture never stops
 
And I think of the mad dentist
In Little House of Horrors
The Jack Nicolson character
Who screams Pain is good
 
As he assaults his patients
Doing root canals
Without anesthesia
 
And so, I endure the torture
Of the dentist
In the vain hope
I can save my teeth
 
Until the next time
I undergo dental torture
The song faces away
And I slowly recover
 
Then as I leave
I am confronted with the bill
And the song roars back to life
 
The torture never stops
the torture never stops