Ürümqi ( /uːˈruːmtʃi/), formerly Tihwa, is the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, in the northwest of the country.
With a built up population of 2,744,280 as of 2010 census (5 urban districts plus Midong) and 2.3 in urban districts, Ürümqi, whose name means "beautiful pasture" in the Mongolian language of the Dzungar people, is the largest city in China's western interior. Since the 1990s Ürümqi has developed economically and now serves as a regional transport node and commercial centre.
Although Ürümqi is situated near the northern route of the Silk Road, it is likely to be a relatively young city. According to Chinese scholars, during the 22nd year of Emperor Taizong's reign in the Tang Dynasty, AD 648, the Tang government set up the town of Luntai in the ancient town seat of Urabo, 10 kilometers from the southern suburb of present-day Ürümqi. Ancient Luntai Town was a seat of local government, and collected taxes from the caravans along the northern route of the Silk Road.
Abigail Washburn (born November 10, 1977 in Evanston, Illinois, USA) is an American clawhammer banjo player and singer. She performs and records as a soloist, as well as with the old-time bands Uncle Earl and Sparrow Quartet.
Washburn was born in Evanston, Illinois and spent her elementary and part of her junior high school years in a suburb of Washington, D.C.. She attended high school in Minnesota, then attended Colorado College, where she was the school's first East Asian studies major. Following this, she spent some time living in China, where she had dreams of being a lawyer (having first visited that nation in 1996). She then spent three years in Vermont before moving to Nashville, Tennessee.
In Tennessee, she met KC Groves, one of the founding members of the band Uncle Earl and she went on to spend five years touring with the band. The "all G'earl" group has released two records on the Rounder Records record label, She Waits for the Night (2005) and Waterloo, TN (2007), which was produced by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin.
kaerenakute wasuretakute
"yurameku" koto no nai ai wo kimi ni
nakikuzureru kimi wo mitsume
mou imasara boku ni nani ga dekiru no ka
itsumo yori tsuyoku dakishimeta ne
ano hi kimi no hitomi kara boku wa kieteita
ima ni natte kizuku nante...
demo kimi wa kawaranai kimi no ai wa mou nai no
kimi wo hontou ni baka da yo boku
kimi no koto wo omou to nazeka namida ga nagareteta
kore de owari ni shiyou ka?
dakara ima made no you itsumo kimi wo dakishimetai
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kimi wo kizu tsukeru nante nido to nai
ai wo uragirisugita ne boku wa...
naze futari wa deatta no kimi ni nani wo nokoseta no?
[mou sannen mae ni wa modorenai no ima wa...]
kaeranakute wasuretakute
mata futari wa deaetara sore made machitsuzukeru yo
eien ni ima made ijou ni nai ai wo
ima made ijou ni mou ichido omoide sae wasuretakute
ai shita kokoro ga itakute
ai yori haruka ni omoi uragiri no naka de
We don't torture, we're a civilized nation
We're avoiding any confontation
We don't torture, we don't torture
American hostages
in Iran
Heard daily on the news
forget about Vietnam
You can ignore the 32
There are 32 women in Armagh jail
political prisoners here at home
the British state's got nothing to lose
It's a subject better left alone -
We don't torture
we're a civilized nation
We're avoiding
any confontation
We don't torture
Alleged crimes withheld information
She gets no sanitation
dries her shit on her cell wall
feeling cold and sick
She gets a couple of valium
Now she's relaxed for the next interrogation
naked spreadeagled on her back
it's a better position for internal examination
it's a better position for giving information
An armed guard squad she gets a beating
bleeding and wounded she's stopped eating
has a baby gets nothing for pain they came and took