diff --git a/src/pybel/parser/parse_metadata.py b/src/pybel/parser/parse_metadata.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/src/pybel/parser/parse_metadata.py
+++ b/src/pybel/parser/parse_metadata.py
@@ -205,6 +205,9 @@ class MetadataParser(BaseParser):
 
     def handle_annotation_pattern(self, s, l, tokens):
         name = tokens['name']
+
+            return tokens
+
         self.annotations_re[name] = tokens['value']
         return tokens
Remove url rewriting and better logging