7empest

The main layer of this song is a conflict between your inner emotions and what you show outside. It’s the typical situation when you do your best to remain calm, but the tempest inside you starts raging to the point when you can’t contain it anymore, so you just explode. And even if that was one extreme situation, people around you suddenly say it’s typical and they knew all the time that you’re a violent type and whatever happened was just waiting to happen. Not sure what it was, but they were sure it will happen. Then you try to calm down again and handle this, but you know it’s a vicious circle and at some point they will make you explode again. But there’s another level. The title itself brings Shakespeare to mind and again connects to the seven stages of life described in one of his works. More so, the way it’s spelled kind of suggests something like an online nick, maybe used by a kid in a game somewhere. This may point to the stage in life described as schoolboy. However, Maynard was contradicting Shakespeare’s classical view in previous songs and here it looks the same. This schoolboy is not whining or creeping emotionless – he’s the tempest. He hates being pushed around and hearing how everybody knows him better, know his nature. They are poisoning him like the deceivers mentioned in Fear Inoculum and he’s raging inside to fight it. But he doesn’t know how yet, so for now he can only be like the tempest and respond with anger.