The Thespian

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.

"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." -Alesana

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where she explains that The Artist had slowly been sinking into madness all this while, as he became more and more withdrawn and his sketches more and more violent.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.

first comment!(: okaay so I absolutly love this song.

I think its about a relationship between a guy and a girl, I think she's dead? and he keeps seeing her everywhere. I think he killed her andd is asking her for forgivenss. but she wants to get him back. I think that part that says "look at you, you miserable fool." is her speaking to him saying he will never be forgiven. and he can't bare it so he ends up killing himself. -pearl(:

I think its about in the story there is the Artist telling the story and a guy loved the girl Annabel and another guy killed her and now he wants revenge and this is a confrontation between them and the guy in love with Annabel is talking to the murderer in the speaking part

where did you find all these quotes?

im listening to it and i followed the words cause online biology is that boring and these lyrics are wrong...

so as i see it, hes haunted by a demon and that demon is himself.its kinda like multiple personality disorder...and he kills her.in the poem anabelle lee she dies of sickness so id ont know exactly how that relates...unless im wrong whichis quite possible.

Alright, so I was watching the video and it resembled Edgar Allen Poe and his life a lot in my opinion. He mentions the name Annabel, like "Annabel Lee", in both the song and poem she died, and he can't see to live without her. "Wearily I stagger towards the song of her pale voice | Demons jeer my attempt to be free" I think it symbolizes how Edgar Allen Poe was drinking a lot after his wife died. I think this song is about About Edgar Allen Poe and his life after his wife died. Anyone agree?

if you read the story you find out in the end that Annabel is still alive and the artist has gone crazy