The Legend
The Reunion Concert
X-JAPAN, one of the most legendary rock bands in Japanese history, has sold over 20 million albums to date. Reuniting more than a decade after their disbandment in 1997, X JAPAN originally planned for two concerts to take place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, March 28th and 30th, but added the 29th date to their Tokyo Dome shows this Tuesday. Due to over 100,000 unprecedented pre-sale ticket applications within an hour of the pre-sale start, the 29th show was added to address the huge demand. At this time, over 200,000 ticket applications have been submitted to three shows with a total capacity of 150,000 attendees. Read more at http://www.einsofmarketing.com/xjapan/
The fans of X-Japan have been looking forward to this reunion concert since the band disbanded a decade ago. The group was greatly devastated when Toshi wanted to leave the group and Hide, one of the group members, passed away. A lot has changed since then for X-Japan. One of the noticeably difference compare to their heyday concert is that Toshi the singer no longer able to hit certain difficult notes and his once perfect voice seek to crack quite sometimes. However this is because Toshi hasn’t been singing and practicing the songs since the group disbanded, and that songs have been written for Toshi
to match his then excellent vocal. Still the fans are not concerned about the quality of his voice anymore, what matter to them is that their idol has returned to create another memorable concert performance.
I first came to know about X-Japan through the song ‘TEARS’ after watching the movie WindStruck and have written a post on it in
Review<Song>: Where’s my sassy girl ?. For those who unfamiliar with the history of the son, Tears is written by Yoshiki
, the leader of the group, after his father took his own life. The unfortunate event inspired him to write the song which explain why the song exalts such emotional and depressing feeling.
One of the nice songs not in concert include Crucify My Love.
The Location
The concert took place at Toyko Dome 
The Interview
The Performance
Tears
This is my favourite song. This also the theme song for My Sassy Girl 2 aka Windstruck
Check out past rendition of this song more than a decade ago
30/3
29/3
Tears
LONELINESS YOUR SILENT WHISPER
FILLS A RIVER OF TEARS
THROUGH THE NIGHT
MEMORY YOU NEVER LET ME CRY
AND YOU, YOU NEVER SAID GOOD-BYE
SOMETIMES OUR TEARS BLINDED THE LOVE
WE LOST OUR DREAMS ALONG THE WAY
BUT I NEVER THOUGHT YOU’D TRADE YOUR SOUL TO THE FATES
NEVER THOUGHT YOU’D LEAVE ME ALONE
TIME THROUGH THE RAIN HAS SET ME FREE
SANDS OF TIME WILL KEEP YOUR MEMORY
LOVE EVERLASTING FADES AWAY
ALIVE WITHIN YOUR BEATLESS HEART
DRY YOUR TEARS WITH LOVE
DRY YOUR TEARS WITH LOVE
Forever Love
30/3
29/3 Unplugged version
Endless Rain
Longing
Art Of Life
This is another legendary song in Japan which originally lasts for 30mins.
Art Of Life
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 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
