Nara (奈良市, Nara-shi?) is the capital city of Nara Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. The city occupies the northern part of Nara Prefecture, directly bordering Kyoto Prefecture. Eight temples, shrines and ruins in Nara, specifically Tōdai-ji, Saidai-ji, Kōfuku-ji, Kasuga Shrine, Gangō-ji, Yakushi-ji, Tōshōdai-ji, and the Heijō Palace remains, together with Kasugayama Primeval Forest, collectively form "Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara", a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
According to the most complete extant historical record of ancient Japan Nihon Shoki the name "Nara" derived from the Japanese verb narasu "to flatten".
Nara was the capital of Japan from 710 to 784, lending its name to the Nara period.
The temples of Nara, known collectively as the Nanto Shichi Daiji, remained powerful even beyond the move of the political capital to Heian-kyō in 794, thus giving Nara a synonym of Nanto (南都, "The Southern Capital"?).
In 2010, Nara celebrated the 1,300th anniversary of its ascension as Japan's imperial capital.
Yoshitomo Nara (奈良 美智, Nara Yoshitomo?, born 5 December 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan) is a Japanese artist. He lives and works in Tokyo, though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. Nara received his B.F.A. (1985) and an M.F.A. (1987) from the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. Between 1988 and 1993, Nara studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in Germany. Nara has had nearly 40 solo exhibitions since 1984. He is represented in New York City by Marianne Boesky Gallery, in Los Angeles by Blum & Poe and in London by Stephen Friedman Gallery
Nara first came to the fore of the art world during Japan’s Pop art movement in the 1990s. The subject matter of his sculptures and paintings is deceptively simple: most works depict one seemingly innocuous subject (often pastel-hued children and animals drawn with confident, cartoonish lines) with little or no background. But these children, who appear at first to be cute and even vulnerable, sometimes brandish weapons like knives and saws. Their wide eyes often hold accusatory looks that could be sleepy-eyed irritation at being awoken from a nap—or that could be undiluted expressions of hate.
Do you know how I feel
How I feel about you
Do you know this is real
How I feel around you
When I see you look at me
I'm not sure of anything
All I know is when you smile
I believe in everything
Do you know how I dream
How I dream about you
Do you know how I feel
Do you know...
Do you know how I feel
How I feel about you
Doesn't take much to tell
That I love, oh, I...
I don't want to waste your time
Make you hang around thinking you've done wrong
You can only wait for me
For so long
But I ain't coming over proving nothing
'Cause I know it's always something
And how you value
Your time alone
So I'm out of here
'Cause I know I'm nowhere near
What you want, what you want
What you're looking for
I don't want to make you smile
Only to see it all turn around
When you decide that I've just
Let you down
And I ain't making up my mind just yet
How easy I forget
Just how you add to
My confusion
So I'm out of here
'Cause I know I'm nowhere near
What you want, what you want
What you're looking for
If I'm breaking your heart
You'll always know where mine got its start
It's better like this anyway
If your world has fallen apart
Maybe you'll find me in the dark
Searching for the right thing to say . . .
Sometimes I don't know where we're going
Sometimes I feel you should be crawling back to me
Time is ticking by without us knowing
Before you know it it will be too late to see
You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all
You try to fake it but you're breaking every rule
Right from the start you've always made me feel a fool
The guilt you hide will come between us after all
You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all
Sense at all
Sense at all
Sense at all
Sense at all
Sense at all
Sense at all
Sense at all
Sense at all
Sense at all
Sometimes I don't know where we're going
Sometimes I feel you should be crawling back to me
Time is ticking by without us knowing
Before you know it it will be too late to see
You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all
You try to fake it but you're breaking every rule
Right from the start you've always made me feel a fool
The guilt you hide will come between us after all
You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all
You try to fake it but you're breaking every rule
Right from the start you've always made me feel a fool
You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all
You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all
You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all
Nary, nary.
Nary, nary,
Nary men gamaloo.
Nary, nary,
Alby eih garaloo?
Nary, nary,
Nary men gamaloo.
Nary, nary,
Alby eih garaloo?
Men nazra, khadny fe lahza,
Dobna ehna sawa.
Habibi dah.
Agmal kalam fe eyono,
Alo enei el hawa.
Habibi dah.
Men nazra, khadny fe lahza,
Dobna ehna sawa.
Habibi dah.
Agmal kalam fe eyono,
Alo enei el hawa.
Habibi dah.
Habeyto, ameil eih?
Habibi dah.
Nary men eil ana fee.
Habibi dah.
Nary, nary.
Nary, nary,
Nary men gamaloo.
Nary, nary,
Alby eih garaloo?
Nary, nary,
Nary men gamaloo.
Nary, nary,
Alby eih garaloo?
Ah men khedoodo, soto,
Odo we dehketo.
Habibi dah.
Arabt meno,
Ashekt naro we reketo.
Habibi dah.
Ah men khedoodo, soto,
We dehketo.
Habibi dah.
Arabt meno,
Ashekt naro we reketo.
Habibi dah.
Nary, nary.
Nary, nary,
Nary men gamaloo.
Nary, nary,
Alby eih garaloo?
Nary, nary,
Nary men gamaloo.
Nary, nary,
Alby eih garaloo?
Salemto alby
Hata abl makalimo.
Habibi dah.
Maho kan fe baly,
We fe khayaly barsemo.
Habibi dah.
Salemto alby
Hata abl makalimo.
Habibi dah.
Maho kan fe baly,
We fe khayaly barsemo.
Habibi dah.
[Hindi]
Teri nazar ki mein ghulam,
Habibi Dah
Dil mera ab tera makaam.
Nary, nary.
Nary, nary,
Nary men gamaloo.
Nary, nary,
Alby eih garaloo?
Nary, nary,
Nary men gamaloo.
Nary, nary,
Alby eih garaloo?
Part 4
Habibi dah.
Habibi dah.
Habibi dah.
Habibi dah.
Habibi dah.
Habibi dah.
Habibi dah.
Men nazra, khadny fe lahza,
Dobna ehna sawa.
Habibi dah.
Agmal kalam fe eyono,
Alo enei el hawa.
Habibi dah.
[Indian]
Palbhar mein kargaya dilbar muj per kya jadoo,
Habibi Dah,
Bas mein toh kho bathey hoon khud per hi kaboo.
Salemto alby
Hata abl makalimo.
Habibi dah.
Maho kan fe baly,
We fe khayaly barsemo.
Habibi dah.
Nary, nary,
Nary men gamaloo.
Nary, nary,
Alby eih garaloo?
Ah men khedoodo, soto,
We dehketo.
Habibi dah.
Arabt meno,
Ashekt naro we reketo.