🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: Kenji - Fort Minor

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