Alesana – The Thespian

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  Song Meaning:Chapter 6 of Alesana; The Emptiness. (the story behind the song)
  
  As the sun sets, the Artist cannot seem to escape his own imagination. Completely lost in self-indulgence, he begins to see Annabel’s face everywhere. The visions of her usher his wandering, delusional thoughts back to the day when he first fell in love with her. He soon becomes obsessed with the fantasy that she could possibly still be alive. The Artist scrambles home in a hastened fury only to be stopped dead in his tracks at his front porch by a man who introduces himself as the Thespian—the man who killed Annabel.

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  General Comment:Think maybe it's based off of the Edgar Allen poe Poem "The tell tale heart"

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  Song Meaning:i think its about how the devil has taken over these peoples relationship and lives, but the guy is trying to bring them both back to there real life. but the devils to overpowering and is taking them both down to an emotional grave for the guy and a real grave for the girl, separating them forever. all at the same time they think this is real life and go crazy.

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  General Comment:ok so in the video dose anyone know wat he says...i cant get it and i have listen to it about 1000 times in the last 2 days...by the way best song in da world....for now

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  General Comment:this is the story
  The central character of the story, a sketch artist known simply as "The Artist" wakes up one day to find his lover, Annabel, dead, lying next to him. Heartbroken and terrified, he buries her in his basement and flees. He wanders aimlessly until he comes to a tavern, where he hears the sounds of merriment and laughter. He decides that if he can't be happy no one can and slaughters everyone in the tavern. After wandering through many places and finding Annabel's killer, "The Thespian", at the end of the story The Artist finally comes face to face with him to fight to the death. He is stabbed in his side with a dagger and finds himself in a room with Annabel holding a dagger in hand. From here on the story's point of view switches from The Artist to Annabel where she explains that The Artist had slowly been sinking into madness all this while, as he became more and more withdrawn and his sketches more and more violent. Though she loved him, in the end she had to take his life in the attempt to defend herself from him.
  
  

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  Song Meaning:The meaning to this song ia that This girl dies. And the boy keeps seeing her everywhere. He misses her very much and he cant take it anymore so he kills himself so he can be with her.

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  General Comment:The central character of the story, a sketch artist known simply as "The Artist" wakes up one day to find his lover, Annabel, dead, lying next to him. Heartbroken and terrified, he buries her in his basement and flees. He wanders aimlessly until he comes to a tavern, where he hears the sounds of merriment and laughter. He decides that if he can't be happy no one can and slaughters everyone in the tavern. After wandering through many places and finding Annabel's killer, "The Thespian", at the end of the story The Artist finally comes face to face with him to fight to the death. He is stabbed in his side with a dagger and finds himself in a room with Annabel holding a dagger in hand. From here on the story's point of view switches from The Artist to Annabel where she explains that The Artist had slowly been sinking into madness all this while, as he became more and more withdrawn and his sketches more and more violent. Though she loved him, in the end she had to take his life in the attempt to defend herself from him.

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  General Comment:shawn milke(singer)=SEXXI!! and dennis lee=AWESOME SCREAMER!!lol i luv alesana!!

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  General Comment:lovelovelove. these guys are fucking amazing.

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  General Comment:You guys who say its about Poe are neither right nor wrong. Alesana wrote the entire basis of the album in a storybook format. They had always wanted to do a true concept album and this was the product. When you buy the Cd, for those who actually still do that, it comes with two booklets, one containing lyrics, the other contains the story titled The Emptiness. The story itself is not about Poe's "Annabel Lee," more like the way Alesana themselves would have done it.

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    this is true, but shawn milke and dennis lee have said that they were influenced by Edgar and some other famous poets. It is noted clearly in their lyrics.

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