🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: Kenji - Fort Minor

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