And yet another Yoshiki song without guitar solo. I'm gonna start believing that hide wrote most guitar parts. Otherwhise I can't understand how the guy who wrote Tears or Forever Love could now write such 'song'.
I agree on the guitar part... During this kind of songs (Forever love, Tears) I always feel a little bad for hide, Pata, Taiji/Heath considering they seem to be bored to death but at least at some point, the song goes up and they do play something more interesting. Here, they don't, they just stand, it's kind of sad.
Really it's too bad all the members are not fully used to their true potential. Even for Toshi, who does a great job instilling emotions and singing nevertheless, I remember some months ago when some extract of Toshi solo leaked on Youtube where he sang Vanishing Love and old X songs and it was just great. He can truly sing songs of that range again, but they keep using the same song over and over again.
Anyway, this song confederates what I feel about the direction of the band: Yoshiki write about rose, pain and rain, Toshi sings with emotion and the other 3 don't do much.
I hope 2017 and the release of the album will trigger a proper revival for this band!