The ballad was written and composed solely by Yoshiki about the death of his father, but he co-credited it to the alias Hitomi Shiratori (白鳥瞳) because he was concerned how fans would react to a softer song from the band.

[1] It would later appear on the album Dahlia and was also used as the theme song for the Japanese TV drama Nikushimi ni Hohoende (憎しみに微笑んで).

[2] The B-side is the lyric-less classical version of the song, which was previously on Yoshiki's solo album Eternal Melody.

[4] A new version of "Tears" was reportedly recorded for X Japan's unreleased studio album,[5] before it was decided to create entirely new material instead.

The title song was covered by South Korean rock band TRAX, as a b-side on the Japanese version of their "Scorpio" single, which was produced by Yoshiki.