Lyrics:

Yes it's true that I once went through life

As a 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.