Hank Green – A Song About An Anglerfish (Ukulele)

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 Yes it's true that I once went through life

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 As a guy who always had to rhyme life with strife

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

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 And through it all, yes, I have learned

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 That love is not about whether you get stabbed

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 But how slow the knife gets turned

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 But my friends I've found an animal

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 Who doesn't feel this pain

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 And my life is so much better 

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 Now that I can feel the same

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 Because you can't hate the night

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 If you've lived your whole life without light

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 And you can't hate the dish

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 If you've only ever eaten fish

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 And you can't feel alone

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 If it's all you've ever known

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 Yeah the deep sea anglerfish

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 Has no reason to be happy

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 But it has no frikkin' idea

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 What else to be

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 The deep sea dwelling anglerfish

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 Never has to find a mate

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 They are always there together

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 When it's time to procreate

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 See one dark night, a young male

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 Bites the female on her side

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 And then slowly he becomes

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 a sperm-producing parasite

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 And if we can say he lives at all

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 He lives until she dies

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 And until that day he literally

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 Never leaves her side

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 Yeah you can't hate the night

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 If you've lived your whole life without light

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 And you can't hate the dish

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 If you've only ever eaten fish

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 And you can't feel alone

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 If it's all you've ever known

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 Yeah the deep sea anglerfish

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 Has no reason to be happy

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 But it has no frikkin' idea

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 What else to be

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 For years this rule has kept me

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 Out of hopeless despair

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 You simply do not feel

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 What is always there

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 I ask my brain to entertain

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 That pain is the same

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 That if I feel it all the time

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 Can you really call it pain

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 I don't have any friends

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 And I don't have any hair

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 But neither does the anglerfish

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 And she doesn't care

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 Because you can't hate the night

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 If you've lived your whole life without light

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 And you can't hate the dish

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 If you've only ever eaten fish

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 And you can't feel alone

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 If it's all you've ever known

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 Yeah the deep sea anglerfish

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 Has no reason to be happy

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 But she has no frikkin' idea

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 What else to be