A Song About An Anglerfish

Yes it's true that I once went through life

As the guy who always had to rhyme life with strife

Yes I've been burned and I've been spurned

And through it all, yes I have learned

That love is not about whether you get stabbed

But how slow the knife gets turned

But my friends, I've found an animal who doesn't feel this pain

And my life is so much better now that I can feel the same

Because you can't hate the night

If you've lived your whole life without light

And you can't hate the dish

If you've only ever eaten fish

And you can't feel alone if it's all you've ever known

Yeah the deep sea Anglerfish has no reason to be happy

But it has no frikkin idea what else to be

The deep sea dwelling Anglerfish never has to find a mate

They are always there together when it's time to procreate

See, one dark night a young male bites the female on her side

And then slowly he becomes a sperm producing parasite

And if we can say he lives at all, he lives until she dies

And until that day, he literally never leaves her side

Yeah you can't hate the night

If you've lived your whole life without light

And you can't hate the dish

If you've only ever eaten fish

And you can't feel alone if it's all you've ever known

Yeah, the deep sea Anglerfish has no reason to be happy

But it has no frikkin idea what else to be

For years this rule has kept me out of hopeless despair

You simply do not feel what is always there

I ask my brain to entertain that pain is the same

That if I feel it all the time, can you really call it pain?

I don't have any friends, and I don't have any hair

But neither does the Anglerfish, and she doesn't care

Because you can't hate the night

If you've lived your whole life without light

And you can't hate the dish

If you've only ever eaten fish

And you can't feel alone if it's all you've ever known

Yeah, the deep sea Anglerfish has no reason to be happy

But she has no frikkin idea what else to be