Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Take out the stories
They've put into your mind
And brace for the glory
As you stare into the sky
The sky beneath
I know you can't be tired
Lay there, stare at the ceiling
And switch back to your time
Just go ahead now try and taste it
I know it should be ripe
Thrust ahead
Turning in circles, been caught in a stasis
The ancient arrival cut to the end
I'd like to be taken apart from the inside
Then spit through the cycle right to the end
I wonder, just how you shaped it
To get back to your prize
Thrust ahead
Turning in circles, been caught in a stasis
The ancient arrival cut to the end
I'd like to be taken apart from the inside
Then spit through the cycle right to the end
Wake for the glory
I know you can't be
Tired
Turning in circles, been caught in a stasis
The ancient arrival cut to the end
I'd like you to take me apart from the inside
Then spit through the cycle right to the end
Inside, inside, inside
Turning in circles, been caught in a stasis (inside, inside, inside)
I want you to take me apart from the inside
Right to the end
They've put into your mind
And brace for the glory
As you stare into the sky
The sky beneath
I know you can't be tired
Lay there, stare at the ceiling
And switch back to your time
Just go ahead now try and taste it
I know it should be ripe
Thrust ahead
Turning in circles, been caught in a stasis
The ancient arrival cut to the end
I'd like to be taken apart from the inside
Then spit through the cycle right to the end
I wonder, just how you shaped it
To get back to your prize
Thrust ahead
Turning in circles, been caught in a stasis
The ancient arrival cut to the end
I'd like to be taken apart from the inside
Then spit through the cycle right to the end
Wake for the glory
I know you can't be
Tired
Turning in circles, been caught in a stasis
The ancient arrival cut to the end
I'd like you to take me apart from the inside
Then spit through the cycle right to the end
Inside, inside, inside
Turning in circles, been caught in a stasis (inside, inside, inside)
I want you to take me apart from the inside
Right to the end
Lyrics submitted by thrwmyhrtawy.
Tempest Lyrics as written by Chino Camilo Moreno Abe Cunningham
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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There is a comment from Chino about how the theme of the album was going to be about the "end of the world" craze, all the doomsday wingnuts talk about happening in December.
A 'Tempest' is a violent disturbance - so - if you think about it, I think what Chino is writing about is 'go ahead and take me, we've been caught in a standstill (stasis) for so long, take me apart'. Wait for the glory (it actually happening) as you stare into the sky beneath, suggesting you're either blown into outerspace or in heaven, looking down.
wikipedia of the 2012 phenomenon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon has some references that kinda tie it all together...or at least you can draw conclusions from it.
The 'ancient arrival' could be the Maya. 'Cut to the end' is saying 'let's see it, enough already, cut to the chase'.
The beginning of Tempest reminds me of Pink Floyd's Run Like Hell
@dchester I know this is an old comment but maybe it wasn't so much THE end in dec 2012 but perhaps of the beginning of the end in the last few years the world has really taken a turn for the worse and this year we are really seeing the makings for end of days shit wihen you consider we are already heading towards a WW3 and that's before Hillary or Trump being elected.