"Tempest" is the second single by Sacramento, California-based alternative metal band Deftones, from their seventh studio album, Koi No Yokan. The song debuted on PureVolume's official website on October 3, 2012 along with a video featuring band members Chino Moreno and Sergio Vega giving some insight regarding the track. The song's lyrical content is representative of the supposed end of the world that would have occurred on December 21, 2012, according to various myths related to the Mayan calendar. It was featured in the trailer for the film Jack the Giant Slayer and featured in Furious 7.
Peaking at No. 3 on the US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks, Tempest became Deftones' most successful single on that chart, surpassing "Change (In the House of Flies)", which peaked at No. 9 in 2001.
The song has been described as post-metal.
La tempesta (internationally released as Tempest) is a 1958 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada. It is based on A History of Pugachev and novel The Captain's Daughter both by Alexander Pushkin. For this film Lattuada was awarded a David di Donatello for Best Director.
TEMPEST is a National Security Agency specification and NATO certification referring to spying on information systems through leaking emanations, including unintentional radio or electrical signals, sounds, and vibrations. TEMPEST covers both methods to spy upon others and also how to shield equipment against such spying. The protection efforts are also known as emission security (EMSEC), which is a subset of communications security (COMSEC).
The NSA methods for spying upon computer emissions are classified, but some of the protection standards have been released by either the NSA or the Department of Defense. Protecting equipment from spying is done with distance, shielding, filtering and masking. The TEMPEST standards mandate elements such as equipment distance from walls, amount of shielding in buildings and equipment, and distance separating wires carrying classified vs. unclassified materials, filters on cables, and even distance and shielding between wires/equipment and building pipes. Noise can also protect information by masking the actual data.
Verse 1)
Promises you made me
All the things you told me
You said you'd never leave me
We'd be together for eternity
Now it's all in the past
Now I know our love will last
Lady I will do all I can
Lady I will be all I am
I'll give you all you had before
So come on in and close the door
Let me show you what I could be
Could you just please tell me
(Chorus)
Do you believe in love
And the promise that it gives
I wanna love U 4 life
'Cause your love is why I live
Do you believe in love
And the promise that it gives
I wanna love U 4 life
'Cause your love is why I live
(Verse 2)
I knew the thing girl
But my faith wasn't strong enough
Now my heart is built to last
My heart is beating for you fast
But now I know that you understand
I wanna take you by the hand
And walk with you down that isle
And with you I'll live my life
I give you all you had before
So come on in and close the door
Let me show you what I could be
If you just please tell me
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
I want you to know that it's for real
This feeling that I feel
I want you to know that it's so real
(Chorus/Fade Out)