🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: Kenji - Fort Minor

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