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The Yellow River or Huáng Hé is the third-longest river in Asia, following the Yangtze River and Yenisei River, and the sixth-longest in the world at the estimated length of 5,464 km (3,395 mi). Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai province of western China, it flows through nine provinces, and it empties into the Bohai Sea near the city of Dongying in Shandong province. The Yellow River basin has an east–west extent of about 1,900 kilometers (1,180 mi) and a north–south extent of about 1,100 km (680 mi). Its total basin area is about 742,443 square kilometers (286,659 sq mi).
The Yellow River is called "the cradle of Chinese civilization", because its basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization, and it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. However, because of frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed (due in part to manmade erosion upstream), sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fields, it also has the names China's Sorrow and Scourge of the Sons of Han.
Downwards, downwards
Life's spiraling descent
Downwards, downwards
Life's spiraling descent
All love is lost
Premature and unreasoning
Premature and unreasoning
Perversely chained without any values
Perversely chained without any values
Wretched, degraded
Wretched, degraded
Take it all on the chin
To forever hold my peace
To forever hold my peace
The reins turned noose, pull taunt as I fall
The reins turned noose, pull taunt as I fall
The figment is more painful than fact
And I'm the one to hang
Just for being me, for being me
The murky clouds wash, solace comforts not
And I'm the one to hang
Just for being me, just for being me
Black numbing blanket smothers attrition