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ART OF LIFE
Lyrics : Yoshiki
Music : Yoshiki
Desert Rose
Why do you live alone
If you are sad
I'll make you leave this life
Are you white, blue or bloody red
All I can see is drowning in cold grey sand

The winds of time
You knock me to the ground
I'm dying of thirst
I wanna run away
I don't know how to set me free to live
My mind cries out feeling pain

I've been roaming to find myself
How long have I been feeling endless hurt
Falling down, rain flows into my heart
In the pain I'm waiting for you
Can't go back
No place to go back to
Life is lost, Flowers fall
If it's all dreams
Now wake me up
If it's all real
Just kill me

I'm making the wall inside my heart
I don't wanna let my emotions get out
It scares me to look at the world
Don't want to find myself lost in your eyes
I tried to drown my past in grey
I never wanna feel more pain
Ran away from you without saying any words
What I don't wanna lose is love

Through my eyes
Time goes by like tears
My emotion's losing the color of life
Kill my heart
Release all my pain
I'm shouting out loud
Insanity takes hold over me

 Turning away from the wall
 Nothing I can see
 The scream deep inside
 reflecting another person in my heart
 He calls me from within
 "All existence you see before you
 must be wiped out :
 Dream, Reality, Memories,
        and Yourself"

I begin to lose control of myself
My lust is so blind, destroys my mind
Nobody can stop my turning to madness
No matter how you try to hold me in your heart
Why do you wanna raise these walls
I don't know the meaning of hatred
My brain gets blown away hearing words of lies
I only want to hold your love

 Stab the dolls filled with hate
 Wash yourself with their blood
 Drive into the raging current of time
 Swing your murderous weapon into the belly
 "the earth"
 Shout and start creating confusion
 Shed your blood for pleasure
 And what ? for love ?
 What am I supposed to do ?

I believe in the madness called "Now"
Past and future prison my heart
Time is blind
But I wanna trace my love
on the wall of time, over pain in my heart
Art of life
Insane blade stabbing dreams
Try to break all truth now
But I can't heal this broken heart in pain
Cannot start to live, Cannot end my life
Keep on crying

Close my eyes
Time breathes I can hear
All love and sadness
       melt in my heart

Dry my tears
Wipe my bloody face
I wanna feel me living my life
       outside my walls

 You can't draw a picture of yesterday, so
 You're painting your heart with your blood
 You can't say "No"
 Only turning the wheel of time
 with a rope around your neck
 You build a wall of morality and take a breath
 from between the bricks
 You make up imaginary enemies and are chased by them
 You're trying to commit suicide
 You're satisfied with your prologue
 Now you're painting your first chapter black
 You are putting the scraps of life together
 and trying to make an asylum for yourself
 You're hitting a bell at the edge of the stage
 and 
 You are trying to kill me

I believe in the madness called "Now"
Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I haven't found what I'm looking for
Art of life
I try to stop myself
But my heart goes to destroy the truth
Tell me why
I want the meaning of my life
Do I try to live, Do I try to love
        in my dream

I'm breaking the wall inside my heart
I just wanna let my emotions get out
Nobody can stop
I'm running to freedom
No matter how you try to hold me in your world
Like a doll carried by the flow of time
I sacrificed the present moment for the future
I was in chains of memory half-blinded
Losing my heart, walking in the sea of dreams
Close my eyes
Rose breathes I can hear
All love and sadness melt in my heart
Dry my tears
Wipe my bloody face
I wanna feel me living my life
             outside my mind

Dreams can make me mad
I can't leave my dream
I can't stop myself
Don't know what I am
What lies are truth ?
What truths are lies ?

I believe in the madness called "Now"
Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
Wanna to live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I haven't found what I'm looking for
Art of life
I try to stop myself
But my heart goes to destroy the truth
Tell me why
I want the meaning of my life
Do I try to live, Do I try to love

Art of life
An Eternal Bleeding heart
You never wanna breathe your last
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I'm feeling for
A Rose is breathing love
          in my life
(I typed these lyrics in exactly 15 minutes and 37 seconds, with a friend who couldn't stop laughing at me, pretending I couldn't type them in less than twenty minutes, and trying to disturb me by heavily singing along with the song... But it didn't work, eheh !)