This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Annabelle, Annabelle
Where'd you run off to?
Annabelle, oh Annabelle
I'm lost without you
I'm in hell, I'm in hell
Down here waiting
Annabelle, wish you could tell what I've been contemplating
Leave it to the angels of the lies
To bring you back to me
Sing to me, tonight
Annabelle, Annabelle
Where've you been hiding?
Annabelle, sweet Annabelle
Since you stopped dying
I'm in hell, oh I'm in hell
Alone and hated
Annabelle, wish you could tell things got too complicated
Leave it to the angels of the lies
To bring you back to me
To sing to me, tonight
Everything's been slowly broken down
Into pieces, into nothing
Now with you no longer dancing
Leaving me to second guessing
Why you left and where you're going
Maybe its best left alone
Like you
Leave it to the angels of the lies
To bring you back to me
To sing to me, tonight
Everything's been slowly broken down
Into pieces, into nothing
Now with you no longer dancing
Leaving me to second guessing
Why you left and where you're going
Maybe its best left alone
Like you
Alone like you [x3]
Alone
Lyrics submitted by JohnnyCash
Annabelle Lyrics as written by Matt Skiba Josiah Steinbrick
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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Brilliant.
One correction on the lyrics;;
Leave it to the angels of light
Actually, I believe it is "lies". If you listen closely, you'll hear a "s" at the end just before "To bring you". I used to think it was "light" too. But lies does fit better with the song, in terms of his relationship with Annabelle being based on lies pertaining to how she really felt about him.
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I fucking love this heartbreak song. I believe Skiba is talking about Annabelle, his ex-girlfriend, and how he wants them to get back together so much. But during his mourning process, he thinks about the relationship as a whole with the good and the bad and realizes that she's not worth gettting back with. She's better off left alone, or least still feeling "alone" with someone else. I love how some of Skiba's loveworn songs end with him saying "Fuck it." Lol.
This is an amazing song. I could feel his pain and frustration. I listen to this song daily as its on my running mix. It never gets old!
My name is AnnaBelle, and I gotta say, I like Hail Social's 'Annabelle' better than this one. This is kind of droning and emo. :P