🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: Kenji - Fort Minor

  father came from Japan in 1905
 He was 15 when  immigrated from Japan
 He worked until he was able to buy  to actually build a store
 
  me tell you the story in the form of a dream,
 I don't know why I have to tell it  I know what it means,
 Close your  just picture the scene,
  I paint it for you, it was World War II,
 When  man named Kenji woke up,
 Ken  not a soldier,
 He was just a man  a family who owned a store in LA,
 That day, he crawled out  bed like he always did,
 Bacon and eggs with wife and 
 He  on the second floor of a little store he ran,
 He moved to LA from 
 They called  'Immigrant,'
 In Japanese, he'd say he was  "Issei,"
 That meant  Generation In The United States,'
 When everyone was afraid of the Germans, afraid of  Japs,
 But most of all afraid  a homeland attack,
 And that morning when Ken went  on the doormat,
 His world went  'cause,
 Right there; front page 
 Three weeks  1942,
 "Pearl Harbour's Been  And The Japs Are Comin'"
 Pictures of soldiers dyin' and 
 Ken knew what it would  to,
 Just like he guessed, the President 
 "The evil Japanese in our home  will be locked away,"
 They gave Ken, a  of days,
 To get his whole  packed in two bags,
 Just two bags, couldn't even  his clothes,
 Some folks didn't even have a suitcase, to  anything in,
 So two trash bags is  they gave them,
 When  kids asked mom "Where are we goin'?"
 Nobody even knew  to say to them,
 Ken didn't wanna lie, he said "The  is lookin' for spies,
 So  have to live in a place called Manzanar,
 Where a lot  Japanese people are,"
 Stop it don't look at the 
  don't wanna get the soldiers wonderin',
 If you gonna  or not,
 'Cause if you run then you  get shot,
  than that try not to think about it,
 Try not to worry 'bout it; bein' so 
 Someday we'll get  someday, someday.
 
  soon as war broke out
 The F.B.I. came and they just  to the house and
 "You have  come"
 "All the Japanese have to 
 They took Mr. 
 People didn't 
 Why did they have to take 
  he's an laborer laborer
 
 So  they're in a town with soldiers surroundin' them,
 Every day, every night  down at them,
 From watch towers  on the wall,
  couldn't really hate them at all;
 They  just doin' their job and,
 He wasn't gonna make  problems,
 He had a little garden with  and fruits that,
 He gave to the troops in a basket his wife 
 But in the back of his mind,  wanted his families life saved,
  of war in their own damn country,
 What for?
 Time passed in  prison town,
 He wanted them to live it down when they were 
 The  way out was joinin' the army,
 And supposedly,  men went out for the army, signed on,
 And ended up  to Japan with a bomb,
 That 15 kilotonne blast, put  end to the war pretty fast,
 Two cities were blown to bits; the end of the war  quick,
 Ken got out, big hopes of a normal life,  his kids and his wife,
 But, when  got back to their home,
 What they  made them feel so alone,
 These  had trashed every room,
 Smashed in the windows and  in the doors,
  on the walls and the floor,
 "Japs not welcome 
 And Kenji dropped  of his bags at his sides and just stood outside,
  looked at his wife without words to say,
 She looked back at him  tears away,
 And, said  we'll be okay, someday,"
 Now the names have been changed, but the  true,
 My family was locked  back in '42,
 My  was there it was dark and damp,
 And they  it an internment camp
 
 When  first got back from camp... uhh
 It was...  pretty bad
 
 I,  remember my husband said
  we gonna stay 'til last?"
 Then my husband died  they close the camp.