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Alesana - Annabel Lyrics

Artist: Alesana

Album: The Emptiness

Genre: Rock

  • Songwriters: Dennis Lee, Shawn Milke, Patrick M. Thompson

How does the dagger feel now
When you're on the receiving end?
If this is what you call betrayal
Then this is what I call revenge

How could I be so blind?
I guess I fell in love too quickly
But I'm fine

Imagine where you'd be now
If you only knew
The one you love is
The one who's killing you
I trusted you too much

I know now that I should have
Kept my eyes wide open
The first time that we kissed
I'll bury you for this

Just say to me
That this time is the last time
And I'll pretend
That somehow I know we'll be fine

Years spent watching in silence
As your illness spilled onto page
Those were the last days I spent with you
Before you left, before he came

How could I be so blind?
I guess I fell in love too quickly
But I'm fine

Imagine where you'd be now
If you only knew
The one you love is
The one who's killing you
I trusted you too much

I know now that I should have
Kept my eyes wide open
The first time that we kissed
I'll bury you for this

Just say to me
That this time is the last time
And I'll pretend that I'm fine

Oh, is it my fault?
You fell into the illusion
You've been living discretely

Or should I blame you in the end?
Did you ever think the sketches
Would take over completely?

Oh, is it my fault?
Oh, is it my fault?

Die, just die
You are scum, you are filth
Choke on blood
As your knife ends the show
Writhe in pain
You thought you'd never know

I don't think they dig graves
Close enough to hell for the likes of you
I don't think they dig graves
Close enough to hell for the likes of you

I handed you a knife and my heart, oh
I handed you a knife and my heart, oh
And now the dream is over
And now the dream is over

I handed you a knife and my heart, oh
I handed you a knife and my heart, oh
And now the dream is over
And now the dream is over

How could I be so blind?
I guess I fell in love too quickly
But I'm fine

Imagine where you'd be now
If you only knew
The one you love is
The one who's killing you
I trusted you too much

I know now that I should have
Kept my eyes wide open
The first time that we kissed
I'll bury you for this

I handed you a knife and my heart, oh
I handed you a knife and my heart, oh
And now the dream is over
And now the dream is over

I handed you a knife and my heart, oh
I handed you a knife and my heart, oh
And now the dream is over
And now the dream is over

I handed you a knife and my heart, oh
I handed you a knife and my heart, oh
And now the dream is over, oh
And now the dream is over


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  • Rifky Oliver Prayoga

    I LOVE Asking Alexandria

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  • Hanung Drop Xdeath

    I LOve ALESANA .. !!

  • David Tsarony Dit Lepa

    just awesome!

  • Anonymous

    alesana and poe! the best couple ever!
    alesana and poe! the best couple ever!

  • Anonymous

    your all really really friggin st**id... she is not a mofo prostitute so kill that idea and she is not and never was cheating on him... so shut the hell up about all that sh*t... he had a delution that he killed her and then he thought the thespian killed her, when he is the thespian. the thespian is the insanity inside him. in reality Annabel feared for her life because she seen the story in his sketch book and killed him because hes going insane... most of this is like a medaphore, it says one thing but means a whole different thing... i&#039ve spent the last week researching this so i think i&#039d know.

  • Anonymous

    lol Annabel is a prostitute??? the thespian is another lover?? what the hell are you even talking about, anyway I read the whole story and one of the explanation here was right, the artist was just so damn madly in love with Annabel that he started sketching about her love dying, in the story, Annabel was so frighten of what was happening to his loved, that he had no choice but to kill him for he was turning into a madman, basically Annabel didn't really died, and those people saying Annabel is a prostitute or she cheated on her lover are just making this stuffs out, if you would read the story, in the final chapter or the epilogue, Annabel reveals what is truly happening, she sees her love killing himself by his very own eyes, her lover was sketching a horrifying story about her dying, killing 7 people, the thespian running there relationship, etc. all of these was just an illusion created by the artist himself, all the story about Annabel dying and everything, just happened in the artist's sketchbook, the only thing TRUE that really happened in the story, was Annabel killing the artist, the man who he once loved but changed just because of a damn book..

  • Anonymous

    If I could find the link I would show you guys, but there is a video of them talking about the video The Thespian. He says he never actually killed her, but who actually killed who is up in the air. Which implies it may not have been anyone killing her. But I can assure you, The Artist never killed her, but he did kill the people in the tavern. Which is why I think she killed him. "Did you ever think the sketches take over completely?" She thought he was going to live out his artwork. Which happened to involve her dying. She wasn't having it.

  • Anonymous

    honestly there are so many ways to interpret this song, that almost every option listed below is viable. The way i interpreted it was that: The artist was madly in love with Annabel, so in love that eventually it drove him crazy. He started having dreams about Annabel being murdered. The artist thinks that it actually happens and tries to seek revenge on the thespian. He also says that he meets a girl very similar to Annabel even though it is the real living Anabel. Annabel kills him in the end because she cant stand the fact that she turned him crazy and their is nothing that can be done.

    -Jack

  • Anonymous

    no no no
    he really does kill her
    but then he loses his mind
    at one point he thinks it wasnt him but hes talking about the dark side of him that did it and is now taking control of him.

    at the end, she doesnt literally kill him, but he dies from his own self, from her memory and him gone insane.
    "the emptiness will haunt you"

    - natalie.

    myspace.com/387149655

  • Anonymous

    you're all right dude ;)
    this is a really amazing album and the lyrics are sometimes a bit too true.. it's the best album by alesana i guess (:

  • Anonymous

    they said : the one u love is the one is killing u...so i support the second explanation which is the artist killed annabel becuz she cheated on him!!
    he said he should hav kept his eyes opened!!

  • Anonymous

    The band explains the album on their official website, save for this song. This song is about The Artist (the protagonist/antihero/narrator of the story) killing The Thespian (the murderer of Annabell) in an act of revenge, and realizing why she was killed. I'm not quite sure, but I've narrowed it down to two possible explanations: 1. Annabel was a prostitute, and The Thespian was her pimp, and he killed her as a way to punish the man who took his "property" away. Either that, or he was a former lover of Annabel who left him for The Artist, and he killed her out of his need for revenge.

  • Anonymous

    i just figured out what the whole album's story means... i think its about him feeling guilty for killing her and him missing her and becoming a killer and killing innocent people but he is also mad that she cheated on him and he is mad that the person she was cheating with and her tried to kill him...or something like that...

  • Anonymous

    this is brenda munoz montoya so people wont get it twisted and i f@%$# love your music !
    i use to be a person who loved hip hop and shit like that but when i heard your music i just couldnt believe how beautiful it is !
    i love every song u make its insane how i cant stop hearing it but so far my favorite is all night dance parties underground palace !
    i love ya alesana !

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