Anabelle Lee

[UndoingTheLaces]

For some odd reason I was listening to this the other day and it hit me in a way it had never hit me before. I think I never paid much attention to it. It didn't grab me at the beginning so I never really listened but the other day it was playing and I left it on, and when it gets to the end it's just totally haunting. And the guitar on it is gorgeous. And I love the way she sings the part at the end, "I lie down... by the side... of my darling... i lie down". It's funny how you can sing three notes and it can seem like magic. There's a line in a Third Eye Blind song that goes "...and the four right chords would make me cry". I always thought that sounded like a Stevie line and it makes so much sense.

Anyway, does anyone have any info on Anabelle Lee? Other than the obvious, Poe, Shangri La demo, yadda yadda. Are there any other versions than the regular and the rock remix (which I really love)? Any ideas on why it was never put on TISL? I'm just totally obsessed by this song.

And I've always maintained that Stevie was the original goth chick and was sort of left behind by the goth movement, but I can't think of anything more "goth" than Stevie singing about laying down by the side of a dead lover. It gives me chills but it's so beautiful. I could totally see Sousxie doing her own version of this.