In the middle of a desolate, inhospitable desert,
Yoshiki, the Japanese composer and leader of the Japanese rock band from Chiba, X Japan, performs the emotional 1995 ballad, "Longing". The director,
David Lynch, uses a sandy beach in Malibu as a silent, ill-lit backdrop, to portray the heart-wrenching feeling of solitude after a painful breakup, and the ardent longing of a lost love.
—Nick Riganas