DESCRIPTION:
Arsis - Maddening Disdain. From the album A Celebration of Guilt. Melodic death metal with a uniquely American twist. This is from the first Arsis record and the current band has mutated into something else. However, this song and album are among the greatest metal offerings from the last decade.

And it came again, like tears for a long lost friend
Tears that find their rest
Amidst words too sordid to comprehend

And it came bearing gifts
Of pain, frankincense, and her
None had a home here, none but the pain

Feel the fervor growing but the hate is stronger
My heart was whole with you
But the pain was mine,
Come twisted flowers
Come blistered soul
Torturing disdain
And the wholeness that is only found in you

Feel the fervor growing but the hate is stronger
My heart was whole with you
But the pain was mine

And it came bearing gifts
Of pain, frankincense, and her
None had a home here, none but the pain

And it left once, alone amidst my words I stood
Uninviting of its presence, this time it's left for good
Feel the fervor growing but the hate is stronger
My heart was whole with you

But the pain was mine, come twisted flowers
Come blistered soul, torturing disdain

And the wholeness that is only found in you
Feel the fervor growing but the hate is stronger
My heart was whole with you
But the pain was mine

And when it's gone forever, a better hand is dealt
And when it's left forever, I then can find myself