A Song About An Angler Fish Lyrics

Yes it's true that I once went through life as a guy who always tended to rhyme life with the 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 I've slowed 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 knife if you've lived your whole life without light
You can't hate the dish if you've only ever eaten fish
You can't feel alone if it's all you've ever known
Yeh the deep sea angler fish has no reason to be happy
But it has no frigging idea what else to be

The deep sea dwelling angler fish never has to find a mate
They are always there together when it's time to procreate
See one dark night a young male finds a female on her side
Then slowly he becomes a sperm producing parasite
And if we can say he lives it, oh he lives it 'til she dies
And until the day he literally never leaves her side

Because you can't hate the knife if you've lived your whole life without light
You can't hate the dish if you've only ever eaten fish
You can't feel alone if it's all you've ever known
Yeh the deep sea angler fish has no reason to be happy
But it has no frigging 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 the pain is the same
But 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 angler fish and she doesn't care

Because you can't hate the knife if you've lived your whole life without light
You can't hate the dish if you've only ever eaten fish
You can't feel alone if it's all you've ever known
Yeh the deep sea angler fish has no reason to be happy
But it has no frigging idea what else to be