Tempest Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Experiman 

Cover art for Tempest lyrics by Deftones

Here's a symbolic take:

/ Take / Out the stories / They’ve put into your mind and brace / For the glory / As you stare into the sky..

      • Forget everything you know and brace for the impact of new understanding

/ The sky beneath

      • You will have to look onto the world from a new angle

/ know you can’t be tired..

      • Come on, life has just begun, don't give up yet, the mystery of life has just began blooming in front of you

/ 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.

      • Remember what you were before your fears and doubts. Remember every trauma and face it (continuation of the song's "Graphic Nature" before this one)

/ Turning in circles / Been caught in a stasis

      • Because until you do you will be trapped

/ The Ancient's arrival / Cut to the end

      • The Ancients represent the Archetypes within you. Cut to the end, do not get caught in the details.

/ 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

      • Deconstruct every aspect of yourself in order to transform yourself into what you truly want to become

@Experiman This is pretty close to how I decrypted it, and it's also a beautiful, empowering perspective

@Experiman thank you