🎵 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 a 
 I don't know why I have to tell it but I know what  means,
 Close your eyes, just picture the 
  I paint it for you, it was World War II,
 When  man named Kenji woke up,
 Ken was not a 
 He was just a man with  family who owned a store in LA,
  day, he crawled out of bed like he always did,
 Bacon  eggs with wife and kids,
 He lived  the second floor of a little store he ran,
  moved to LA from Japan,
 They  him 'Immigrant,'
 In Japanese, he'd say he was  "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 black 
 Right  front page news,
  weeks before 1942,
 "Pearl Harbour's Been Bombed And The Japs  Comin'"
 Pictures of  dyin' and runnin',
 Ken knew what it would  to,
 Just like he guessed, the  said,
 "The evil Japanese in our home country  be locked away,"
 They gave Ken, a  of days,
  get his whole life packed in two bags,
 Just two bags, couldn't  pack his clothes,
 Some folks didn't even have a suitcase, to pack anything 
  two trash bags is all they gave them,
 When the kids asked mom "Where  we goin'?"
 Nobody  knew what to say to them,
 Ken didn't wanna lie,  said "The US is lookin' for spies,
 So we have  live in a place called Manzanar,
 Where  lot of Japanese people are,"
 Stop it don't  at the gunmen,
 You don't wanna get  soldiers wonderin',
 If you  run or not,
 'Cause if  run then you might get shot,
 Other than that try not to think  it,
 Try not to worry 'bout  bein' so crowded,
 Someday we'll get out,  someday.
 
 As soon  war broke out
 The F.B.I. came and they just come to  house and
  have to come"
 "All the  have to go"
 They  Mr. Lee
  didn't understand
 Why did  have to take him?
 Because he's an laborer 
 
 So now they're in  town with soldiers surroundin' them,
 Every day,  night look down at them,
 From watch  up on the wall,
 Ken  really hate them at all;
 They were just  their job and,
 He wasn't gonna make  problems,
 He had a  garden with vegetables and fruits that,
 He gave to the troops in a  his wife made,
 But in  back of his mind, he wanted his families life saved,
  of war in their own damn country,
 What for?
 Time passed in the prison 
 He wanted them to live it  when they were free,
  only way out was joinin' the army,
 And supposedly, some men went out for the army, signed 
 And ended up flyin' to Japan with  bomb,
 That 15  blast, put an end to the war pretty fast,
  cities were blown to bits; 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  their home,
  they saw made them feel so alone,
 These  had trashed every room,
 Smashed in the windows and bashed in the 
 Written on the walls and the 
 "Japs  welcome anymore."
 And Kenji dropped both of  bags at his sides and just stood outside,
  looked at his wife without words to say,
  looked back at him wiping tears away,
 And, said  we'll be okay, someday,"
 Now the  have been changed, but the story's true,
 My family was locked  back in '42,
 My family  there it was dark and damp,
 And they called it  internment camp
 
 When we first got back from camp... 
  was... pretty... pretty bad
 
 I, I remember my husband 
 "Are we gonna  'til last?"
 Then my husband died before they  the camp.