Art Of Life (X Japan)

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

(2:59-3:33)
(4 Beats each)
Em D C B (x2)

(2 Beats each)
C D Em <--(4 Beats) (x2)

(3:45-3:55)Mini-Solo
D Em D C D

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 D#m 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 D#m 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

This is all I have for now. Im working on the rest :