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