X Japan – Art Of Life (Guitar)

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Intro: (0:00 - 1:16) C7M B7 (Strum up and down starting at the A string) (1:17-2:58)
Em
Desert Rose

           B
Why do you live alone?

D
 If you are sad

              C            B7
I'll make you leave this life

Em                       D
  Are you white, blue or bloody red?

C      Am                     D    B7   Em
 All I can see is drowning in cold grey sand
The winds of time
             B  
You knock me to the ground

D 
 I'm dying of thirst

        A 
I wanna run away

C                           G      C  Bm 
 I don't know how to set me free to live

D        B7                Em   D
 My mind cries out feeling pain

     G               B7
I've been roaming to find myself

    C                        D
How long have I been feeling endless hurt?

        G                  B7
Falling down, rain flows into my heart

       C        A           D
In the pain I'm waiting for you

B7       Em         
Can't go back

            D
No place to go back to

        A             C
Life is lost, Flowers fall

B7          Em
If it's all dreams

            B7
Now wake me up

            D 
If it's all real

B7         Em
 Just kill me
(2:59-3:44) (4 Beats each) Em D C B (x2) (2 Beats each) C D Em <--(4 Beats) (x2) *DOUBLE TIME* Em D Em Em (3:45-3:55)Mini-Solo D Em D C D (3:56-4:09) G5 G5 A5 (x3) D Dsus4 D G5 G5 A5 (x3) D Dsus4 D C D G5 G5 A5 Em Verse 1 (4:10-4:51)
               Em             G  
I'm making the wall inside my heart

              D               Em
I don't wanna let my emotions get out

          Em                C
It scares me to look at the world

      D      B          Em           Em  D             
Don't want to find myself lost in your eyes

C           D                G    B
 I tried to drown my past in grey

C          A             D    B 
 I never wanna feel more pain

C           D               G         B    
 Ran away from you without saying any words

C             D             Em 
 What I don't wanna lose is love
(Verse 2) (5:16-5:56)
           C
Through my eyes

     G            Am
Time goes by like tears

   Em           F                G
My emotion's losing the color of life

        C
Kill my heart

  G            Am   
Release all my pain

    Em           F
I'm shouting out louder

               G    E     
Insanity takes hold over me

Am
  Turning away from the wall

F
  Nothing I can see

G
The scream deep inside

            C                   Em 
reflecting another person in my heart

          Am
He calls me from within

               F   
"All existence you see before you
must be wiped out :
G       E         Am 
  Dream, Reality, Memories,
and Yourself" (Solo) (5:58-6:42) D F D G E Am C F7 Am B C D B Em C A Am B C D B Em C D B (Verse 3) (6:52-7:31)
           G                 C
I begin to lose control of myself

              D                  G   B
My lust is so blind, destroys my mind

           Em                 C    
Nobody can stop my turning to madness

   D              B            Em          Em  D
No matter how you try to hold me in your heart

C           D                 B    B
 Why do you wanna raise these walls?

C                 A       D      B       
 I don't know the meaning of hatred

C              D                  G        B
 My brain gets blown away hearing words of lies

C       D                 Em 
 I only want to hold your love