🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: Kenji - Fort Minor

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