Alesana – Annabel

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  Upon walking by a pub, the devil discovers a couple whose love was truly pure, being who he was he had a natural inclination to destroy such love. He hatches a devious plan, one that will drive a man to the brink of insanity and back, twice. Possessing the poor soul he alludes him to the fact that it wasn't himself, but indeed lucifer who stole his loves life. In a guilt fueled rage with much encouragement from the devil and his minions the poor misguided soul begins a killing spree, only to be cut short by an encounter with his dear Annabel. At this point he temporarily regains his sanity, but not for long. The fleeting, yet blissful meeting ended abruptly, almost as soon as it began. Followed by a visitor of completely different sorts.
  In a bitter and deceitful meeting the devil offers him an irresistible stipulation His soul in return for Annabel. After realising treachery and foul play, the cheated man is reunited with his Annabel, who has returned in an ethereal form otherwise known as an angel. Eager to truly be one with his love again, he considers suicidal actions and soon learns a more retributional path. Allied with his soul-mate, they engage in a heated head to head stand off with the devil himself. The troubled lover is murdered. He ascends to heaven, where all his misdeed are forgiven. Upon his arrival he is reunited with his lover. Right where they left off in their past life, living oblivious to to the fact that there love was so powerful it defeated evil himself.
  p.s this may be wrong, but it felt fight on paper...

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  General Comment:So, I'm confused. Who killed him? or did he really commit suicide?

  Flag bleekerfaceon September 06, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:I know the whole story inside and out, but I just realized something . The events that took place throughout the fews days when The Artist went on his killing rampage and everything was actually a year's time in reality. What I just thought of is that it took a year for the complete insanity to develop within him and for him to sketch out his own story and idea of what happened in "a few days time"

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  General Comment:He doesn't kill her. That was part of the insanity that the Artist was feeling. He made up an alter-ego the "Thespian" that he imagined killed her. And fell into his own little world. This song is about Annabel finally realizing that he is too far gone, and he tries to kill her. She kills him first.
  
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  Flag +Bloody_Angel+on July 04, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:ummmmmmmm well i'll give my opinion bout the album:))
  dnt judge me:// jajaa
  
  well i think this is a story about a boy that was really obsessed with this
  girl.he didnt wanted to share or let go of her.so he decides to kill her.but
  as soon as he realizes what he had done he goes insane and cant believe what he
  had done.annabel's image haunts him down so that he could see his crime.but its
  hard for him to admit it.and now blames annabel for what he had committed.

  Flag drdeeon June 10, 2010   Link

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  i believe kennysplatter has the right idea but a lil fact is that they try to relate to edgar allan poe. he has a poem called "Annabel Lee" it goes
  It was many and many a year ago
  In a kingdom by the sea
  That a maiden there lived whom you may know
  By the name of Annabel Lee
  And this maiden she lived with no other thought
  than to love and be loved by me
  I was a child and she was a child
  In this kingdom by the sea
  But we loved with a love which was more than love-
  I and my annabel Lee
  With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
  Coveted her and me
  And this was the reason that long ago
  In this Kingdom by the sea
  A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
  My beautiful Annabel Lee
  So that her highborn kinsmen came
  And bore her away from me
  To shut her up in a sepulchre
  In this kingdom by the sea
  The angels, not half so happy in heaven
  Went envying her and me-
  Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
  In this kingdom by the sea)
  That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
  Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee
  Bout our love it was stronger by far than the love
  Of those who were older than we-
  Of many far wiser than we-
  And neither the angels in heaven above
  Nor the demons down under the sea
  Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
  Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
  For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
  Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
  And the stars never rise but i fell the bright eyes
  Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
  And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
  Of my darling-my darling-my life and my bride
  In her sepulchre there by the sea,
  In her tomb by the sounding sea.
  
  Im not sayin the whole cd is about him but thats where they generated the idea from Poe is a dark and mysterious artist her often rights about going crazy, murder, suicide and shcitzophrenia.

  Flag aXworldXheldXinXseveredXhandson April 23, 2010   Link

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  Song Meaning:Hey Guys, Okay, well, I read the story and stuff, and also I suspected the same thing before I read it.
  
  The song is from Annabel's Point of view, The artist was going insane and was in a world of his own, While the other personality took over(before you left, before he came.) and well, To the artist, all the events from 'curse of the virgin canvas' all the way to 'to be scared by an owl' were only a few days. But in reality, it was a Year, and Annabel was watching the artist go insane, uttering complete nonsense and Sketching Violent pictures, and he would be a complete different person, like a lunatic, one fine day, The Artist's Insane Personality tried to Kill Annabel (in the artist's mind he was fighting the thespian) and Annabel somehow was able to fight back and stab the artist in the side(how does the dagger feel now when you're at the receiving end?), and the artist woke up from the dream of him fighting the thespian and he woke up staring into a mirror in his own room, like as though it was the same morning he found annabel dead, but annabel was behind him with a dagger plunged into his side. The artist dies. Then Annabel Explains that The Artist killed himself when he let the madman take over him, and she said the madman took shelter in the mind of her lover and killed him, and he failed when he thought the knife he held at me would kill me, the knife I now hold in my hand.

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  General Comment:Oh..and "before you left, before he came"..thats before he became crazy?
  
  I was also thinking, what if it was something like..Annabel betrayed him, and he wanted revenge and obsessed over getting her back, and it just drove him crazy until he finally went on a rage and killed everyone..then himself where he then found her again? Idk.

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  General Comment:Awesome owlwings!
  
  His illness spilled onto the page..he was going crazy, but she stayed, she wanted to be with him, but it overtook him and he just went into full on psycho mode..and he killed her..but now shes getting revenge..and shes asking him imagine where he would be if he knew she would be the one to kill him..so..is it safe to say that Annabel didnt rlly die? Maybe only in his eyes? She was no longer his, maybe she left him?
  
  And about the sketches, was the part of him being crazy? Maybe he was sketching out his acts of violence, and they finally took over?
  
  This cd is amazing.

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    I'm thinking she left him because she knew he was killing people.. "Just say to me that this time is the last time...And I'll pretend I'm fine." Like she was watching it happen and she just stood on the sidelines. But she finally just left and that's what drove him over the edge. So in his mind he killed her when in reality she just abandoned him. Then all these murders happened so she put a stop to it herself.
    

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    I'm trying to figure the climax out myself, and I guess only Alesana really knows what they meant with the ending but I really love your idea about the sketches and how all the murders and such were just a part of his fantasy. Then her finally ending him for his fantasies of killing her and everything. Idk but this makes the most sense and makes out the best story line in my opinion personally. Could be lots of things though. LOVE this freaking album

    Flag EDTangumaon February 11, 2010  

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    She killed him in the end because he went crazy. If you get the album, it has a story booklet in it. here are the basics from that story:
    
    Chapter 1: Empty Eyes Accuse a Face So Evil:
    he discovers his only love annabel dead beside him. he immediately thinks that he did it.
    
    Chapter 2: Sweaty Hands Fail to Lock the Door:
    he tries to hide the body by taking it to the basement. there he chops her up to hide her behind loose bricks in the floor. he then keeps mentioning that "They'll be here soon." he decides to run away as far as he can.
    
    Chapter 3: It Was Your Poison Kiss that Turned Me Into This:
    he does more thinking as hes running away. hes wondering why he killed annabel, how he loves her. and this parts a bit vague but i think shes kind of haunting him in a way. he says "leave me alone annabel."
    
    Chapter 4: My Thirst For Blood Turns Me On:
    he feels the need to kill. so he goes to the town tavern and kills seven people. there is a man "who escapes quietly from the balcony."
    
    Chapter 5: I Immerse Myself in Sick Reflection:
    he doesnt know and doesnt care who he saw on the balcony. he believes that killing annabel and the people in the tavern are the best decisions hes ever made in his life, because he has "never felt so alive." he says that he thinks hes going crazy but doesnt see it as a bad thing. he says that annabel told him that his sketchbook would be the end of him and its better if he left it behind. he agrees now, cuz he thinks killing is "way more fun." he exits the tavern but is surprised no one has noticed anything about what had happened. then he sees annabels figure in a mirror. (hes actually been seeing her in a mirror a couple of times throughout the story.) "I shut my eyes and once again the pleasure strangles me. Good morning, town. Behold, for I am the will of the reaper and I am standing closer to the edge than I should be allowed."
    
    Chapter 6: Her Somber Silhouette Dances for Me:
    he sees annabel everywhere. he says that he never meant to hurt annabel, its not his fault, its not who he is, hes not a killer. he runs away from the town and into the countryside. he sees the house where annabel died. leaning against the door is the guy who he escaped from the tavern the night before, whos holding the same knife that was next to annabel when she died. this man is known as the thespian. the thespian vanishes.
    
    Chapter 7: My Feet Are Sleeping:
    he comes to the conclusion that the thespian killed annabel. he wants to know why he killed her. he wants revenge and wants to kill the thespian. then its the part with the "but what is it that i am chasing? am i really chasing anything at all?" in the song. then i think he wants to commit suicide ("Even if I find him and kill him, what good will it do? It will not bring my Annabel back. Killing him will not erase what he has done and bring her out from her tomb in the basement. A tomb that my hands are responsible for crating. There is only one clear solution. I must go to her. I must rejoin her on the other side.") Then he goes back to town. he sees people smiling and happy in the town which seems to get him mad. he feels like he wants to kill again but he "tries to remember the man [he] was, not the man [he has] become." he stumbles into an alley, grabs his knife, the tip approaching his throat, until Annabel appears. his thoughts of revenge, death, and mistakes vanish.
    
    Chapter 8: Dead Girls Don't Just Appear Out of Thin Air:
    he passes out and wakes up in an "unfamiliar bed in an even more unfamiliar house." he sees a note that says to go downstairs for a meal. he goes downstairs and sees annabel. he says that he wants to think its annabel but he says that his "heart knew the truth," that it was an angel sent from heaven to save his life. they go for a walk, he tells her everything that has happened, how he loves annabel, etc. when they got back home, they share stories, past, etc. then he thinks this: "Being with her makes me completely forget the nightmare my life has become. Maybe this is exactly what I need; someone to fill the empty void that the loss of Annabel has left inside of me." he approaches to kiss her, then she disappears. he finds himself back at the alley, concluding it was a dream, that that angel was annabel, and that was the only place he would ever see her again.
    
    Chapter 9: It's Happening Again, It's Happening Again:
    he sees annabel's reflection in a window of a local butcher shop. shes smiling at him, then a blade slices her throat, her body falls to the floor, the thespian is standing over and laughing at her lifeless body. he wanders around the town for days and days, then suddenly realizes that nobody has discovered the bodies at the tavern yet, nobody has noticed him. so he goes back to the tavern and sees that its normal. no bodies, "business as usual." its as if nothing happened at all. he sees annabels reflection again. this time, as a distorted image. she looks at him in disgust and says "you let him kill me," tips her head back, showing the wound on her throat, and the wound starts to bubble. he decides to kill the thespian.
    
    Chapter 10: You Have No Clue What She Is Capable Of:
    he sets on to search for the thespian. he goes in an alley and sees his shadow that is holding that same knife that killed annabel. they both fight eachother. the thespian hurts him but he keeps missing the thespian. then he becomes paralyzed. then hears "the soft soothing voice of a woman with a tongue of honey." it was annabel's. "'Sweetheart? Darling?...Turn around. It's me. Follow my voice. Everything is going to be okay, my love. Everything will be fine. It's all over now.'" he finds himself back in the bedroom, standing in front of the mirror. it was that morning that annabel died except shes alive. "The mirror had revealed to me its deepest secret. There she was, my sweet Annabel, covered in blood standing behind me, twisting the blade she has plunged into my side. I had promised her the world and still I had let her down. The darkness returns and I shall never see this world again."
    
    Epilogue, And Now the Dream Is Over: (this part is in annabel's point of view) "My name is Annabel and I am here to tell you the story of the day that I killed a madman. There is nothing more frightening that watching the man you love try to kill himself. The exception is watching the man you used to love turn into a complete and utter lunatic." she found his sketches odd. shed see him sitting alone in a corner, talking to himself while sketching. like hes holding a conversation. she was too scared to interrupt and when shed mention it, he would say that she was mistaken, confused by what she saw. she says that she doesnt feel the love that he once had for her in his heart. he kept muttering about "seven people in a tavern, a beautiful angel saving his life, and some man he called The Thespian ruining everything." his sketches became more and more disturbing. one night when he fell asleep, she looked into his sketchbook. this is the last paragraph: I did not kill my love. The man that I loved, that I shared my life with, laughed with, cried with, was long gone. No, I did not kill him. He killed himself. He killed himself when he allowed the madman inside his head to take control. I spent years watching in silence as his illness spilled onto the pages of that damn book. Is it my fault? Was there something I could have done to prevent his descent into insanity? In the end, should I blame him or blamed myself? Did he ever think the sketches would take over completely? did I? No, the man standing, staring blindly into the mirror in front of me is not my love. I said goodbye to him nearly a year ago. If he does still exist somewhere inside of this demented mind, I'll be damned if I can find him. That guy standing here is the man who killed my love and stole all that I hold dear. He is the crazy guy who found shelter in the mind of an artist and escaped onto page. The knife that this creature had thought would kill me had failed. The very knife that I now hold in my hand."

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    To Bex01,
    You can't write the entire story on there. It is plagerism. The lyrics can go about the internet, but the actual story is not allowed. This is the same as writing out any novel on the internet and people reading it without legal rights. The Emptiness is a published story just like anything else.

    Flag UnreasonableRachelleon July 05, 2010  

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    UnreasonableRachelle- Chill out and quit being a douche, no one got hurt.

    Flag Adamadam281on August 03, 2010  
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  General Comment:This song is from the viewpoint of Annabel, the guy's girl. She kills him in the end because he was going crazy. The Artist and The Thespian are the same guy, he just went psycho. Thats how I see it anyways.

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    He wasn't going crazy, he'd gone way past that. Complete lunatic :)

    Flag UnreasonableRachelleon May 02, 2010  

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    i agree lol very funny tho

    Flag alesanaismisoulon November 22, 2010  

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