1) TEMPEST (템페스트… Read Full Bio ↴There are many known artists with the name Tempest:
1) TEMPEST (템페스트) is a South Korean boy group under Yue Hua Entertainment. They debuted on March 2, 2022 with the mini album It's ME, It's WE. They consist of the members LEW, Hanbin, Hyeongseop, Hyuk, Hwarang, Eunchan and Taerae.
2) A amazing rapper from Bronx, New York City
3) Tempest is a British rock band founded by Colosseum drummer Jon Hiseman.
Original members included Paul Williams (from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers) singing and Allan Holdsworth on guitar, plus fellow Colosseum alum Mark Clarke on bass. This lineup recorded a self-titled
LP in 1972. For the second album in 1974, Holdsworth and Williams were replaced by Ollie Halsall. Shortly thereafter the band split up, with Hiseman next forming Colosseum II.
4) A Canadian black metal/crust band from Vancouver, who formed during the fall of 2007.
5) A Celtic folk-rock group based in California;
6) A Finnish demoscener named Janne Suni who was plagiarized by Timbaland;
7) An unsigned German Death/Thrash Metal Band from Nuremburg;
8) An electronic project of Elijah Colburn, an unsigned artist from Greer, SC.
9) The Original Tempest (http://thetempests.com) from 1962 out of Tampa Bay Florida
Eclectic Rock. Their 45 debut was in 1966 - I want you only and I want you to know
10) A Christian glam metal band
11) A New Zealand rock/metal band.
12) After he was kicked out of Joker, Chris DeGarmo (future guitarist of Queensrÿche) formed the band Tempest with singer and bass player Mark Hovland and drummer Kevin Hodges on drums.
Funeral Empire
Tempest Lyrics
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You're just wastin' your time, wastin' your time
Over here we are losers, some people
We are way out of line, way out of line
Everybody's saying it's gotta stop and it'll never stop
It'll never be
It'll never be cool 'cause it's too much aggravation in our history
The sun will never go down
The sun will never set
The sun will never go down
The sun will never set
The sun will never go down
The sun will never set on the funeral
Set on the funeral, set on the funeral empire
On the funeral empire, on the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
Now somebody help me 'cause I'm afraid
We must have known that what we did was so wrong
We must have known that what we did was wrong
Yeah
So if you ever come across the sea
You're just wastin' your time, wastin' your time
Over here we are smart as can be
We are way out of line, way out of line
It makes no difference when we say our love is true
They had to play our game, play our game
It makes no difference when we say the sea is blue
They just took what we claimed
The sun will never go down
The sun will never set
The sun will never go down
The sun will never set
The sun will never go down
The sun will never set, oh no
Well, the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
Well, Queen Victoria
Yeah, she had it coming
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
She had it coming
On the funeral empire
The opening lines of Tempest's "Funeral Empire" indicate that the singer is not welcoming visitors from across the sea, dismissing them as losers who are wasting their time. The singer is suggesting that their society is already messed up and out of line, and doesn't need any more chaos that these visitors might bring. The lyrics reflect a sense of disillusionment with their own society, one where everybody seems to acknowledge that something is wrong with it, but nobody seems to be able to do anything to change it. The repeated refrain of "The sun will never go down, the sun will never set on the funeral empire" suggests that the problems are so deeply rooted that they will never go away, and that the country is essentially a giant funeral, mourning its own demise.
The middle section of the song turns more introspective, as the singer becomes more self-aware and begins to question their own actions. They express fear that what they have done is wrong, and wonder how they could have ever thought otherwise. Nonetheless, the song spirals back into its nihilistic refrain, suggesting that the problems run too deep for anything to be done.
Overall, "Funeral Empire" paints a bleak picture of a society that is beyond repair, one where attitudes and actions that are wrong and destructive are normalized and accepted as just the way things are.
Line by Line Meaning
If you ever come across the sea
You're just wastin' your time, wastin' your time
Over here we are losers, some people
We are way out of line, way out of line
Going beyond the sea is pointless; here everyone is unsuccessful and ill-behaved
Everybody's saying it's gotta stop and it'll never stop
It'll never be
It'll never be cool 'cause it's too much aggravation in our history
People want us to change, but it's never going to happen because of our troublesome past
The sun will never go down
The sun will never set
The sun will never go down
The sun will never set
The sun will never go down
The sun will never set on the funeral
Set on the funeral, set on the funeral empire
On the funeral empire, on the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
Our reign will never end, symbolized by the sun never setting on our funeral empire
Now somebody help me 'cause I'm afraid
We must have known that what we did was so wrong
We must have known that what we did was wrong
Yeah
I'm scared and need assistance because we knew our actions were incorrect
So if you ever come across the sea
You're just wastin' your time, wastin' your time
Over here we are smart as can be
We are way out of line, way out of line
Going beyond the sea is pointless; here we are smart and rebellious
It makes no difference when we say our love is true
They had to play our game, play our game
It makes no difference when we say the sea is blue
They just took what we claimed
Our statements hold no significance; others have to follow our rules and opinions regardless
The sun will never go down
The sun will never set
The sun will never go down
The sun will never set
The sun will never go down
The sun will never set, oh no
Well, the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
Well, Queen Victoria
Yeah, she had it coming
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
On the funeral empire
She had it coming
On the funeral empire
The funeral empire will never end, even as we celebrate the death of Queen Victoria
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: OLLY HALSALL
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