🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: Kenji - Fort Minor

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