🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: Kenji - Fort Minor

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