Weird Al Yankovic - Cavity Search Lyrics

*Lyrics*
Listenin' to the Muzak
Hearin' people scream
Sittin' in the waiting room
Readin' crappy magazines

With a toothache
This is it, pal
Root canal

My molars are impacted
I'm gettin' gum disease
I'm gonna need some fillings
Got twelve cavities
Can you help me

Have mercy
Doctor, please

My teeth are a fright
Got a huge overbite
Numb me, drill me
Floss me, bill me

You jab at my nerve endings
It's driving me insane
Just give me nitrous oxide
Shoot me up with novocaine

Help me out here
'Cause I'm in severe
Pain
Please stop for a bit

Now let me rinse and spit
Numb me, drill me
Floss me, bill me

You validate my parking
I think that I'm okay
But you my one more appointment for
A week from Saturday

'Cause you came upon
A little problem on
My x-ray
Oy vey!

It's getting absurd
Well, I hope I'm insured, now
Numb me, drill me
Floss me, bill me

Numb me, drill me, floss me, bill me! 😎

LET ME RINSE AND SPIT DOC WOW!

Is it safe?

Heard the original on the radio one day. Rite away sang the weird al version. Ha ha ha ha.

Was there ever a song, weird Al didn't parody?

A lot of them

This is hilarious! How’d I miss it after all these years?

Most likely the varied difference in the parody's name compared to the original song.

lmao the drill killed me XD

Imagine this playing at the Batman Forever credits instead of the U2 Version?

I WOULD PAY TWICE AS MUCH TO SEE THAT HAPPEN

How do you keep an idiot in suspense?

Pamela B Drop him in a lake?

Does that sound like a real drill or what

Uncomfortably, but surely.

That's because it is. Al brought in his real dentist, a real drill, and a real human tooth. The dentist even let Al have a turn with the drill.

I have a toothache and a tooth removal procedure tomorrow. The song helps me to laugh and not be nervous

Hope it all went well🙏

what the hell is musac? xd

Elevator music

*Muzak - a brand of 'background music' provided commercially to businesses that have areas where customers tend to remain for a time - make the waiting room or elevator or lobby seem less boring with some light, ineffectual music provided to the law office or doctor's (or *ahem* dentist's) waiting room by Muzak LLC. They had been such a dominant force in this market, that their company name became synonymous with the product itself, and ALL background music was referred to as 'muzak', much like any brand of facial tissues are often just called 'kleenex', etc.


...you hear some of the typical 'light background music' at the very end of the song.

"Oy Vey!"

That's my favorite part - and what I sing when I hear the original U2 song!

I heard one of U2's song titles hidden in the lyrics.

i would love to know how Bono & the Boys felt about this one

Probably liked it, since Al generally doesn't sell parodies without the okay of the original artist (Coolio excluded...that was a mess).

apparently Coolio approved but his record company didn't

The record company told Al that they had Coolio's approval, but they didn't. Al and Coolio eventually worked it out.

Doubt that U2 were ok with it. They sued a band called negativeland into the ground for a parody of I still haven't found.

I heard they played backup.

Wow Yolk

I heard that U2 actually played backup for this song

I don't know, but Mark Knopfler agreed to his Money For Nothing parody only if Knopfler could play lead guitar, so that's why it sounds so much like Police's song.

Cliff Sees You mean Dire Straits?