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 My father came from Japan in 
 He was 15 when he immigrated  Japan
 He worked until he was able to  - to actually build a store
 
 Let  tell you the story in the form of a dream,
 I don't know why I have to tell it but I know what it 
  your eyes, just picture the scene,
 As I  it for you, it was World War II,
 When this man named  woke up,
 Ken was not  soldier,
 He was just a man with a family who  a store in LA,
 That day, he crawled out of bed like  always did,
 Bacon and  with wife and kids,
 He lived on  second floor of a little store he ran,
 He moved  LA from Japan,
 They called him 
 In Japanese, he'd say he  called "Issei,"
 That meant 'First Generation In The United 
 When everyone was afraid of the  afraid of the Japs,
 But most of  afraid of a homeland attack,
 And that morning when Ken  out on the doormat,
 His world went black 
 Right there; front  news,
 Three  before 1942,
 "Pearl Harbour's Been Bombed And The Japs  Comin'"
 Pictures  soldiers dyin' and runnin',
 Ken knew  it would lead to,
 Just like he guessed, the  said,
 "The evil Japanese in  home country will be locked away,"
 They gave Ken, a couple of 
 To get his whole life packed in two 
 Just two bags, couldn't even pack his 
 Some folks didn't even have a suitcase, to pack  in,
 So two trash bags is all they gave 
 When the kids asked mom "Where  we goin'?"
  even knew what to say to them,
 Ken didn't wanna lie, he  "The US is lookin' for spies,
 So we have  live in a place called Manzanar,
 Where a  of Japanese people are,"
 Stop it  look at the gunmen,
 You don't wanna  the soldiers wonderin',
 If you gonna run  not,
 'Cause if  run then you might get shot,
 Other than  try not to think about it,
 Try not to worry 'bout it; bein'  crowded,
 Someday we'll get out,  someday.
 
 As soon as war  out
 The F.B.I. came and they just come to the  and
 "You have  come"
 "All the  have to go"
 They took Mr. 
 People didn't understand
 Why did  have to take him?
  he's an laborer laborer
 
  now they're in a town with soldiers surroundin' them,
 Every day, every night look down at 
 From watch towers  on the wall,
 Ken couldn't really hate them at 
 They were just doin' their job 
 He wasn't gonna make  problems,
 He had a  garden with vegetables and fruits that,
 He gave  the troops in a basket his wife made,
 But  the back of his mind, he wanted his families life saved,
 Prisoners of  in their own damn country,
 What for?
 Time  in the prison town,
 He wanted them to live it down when  were free,
 The only way out was joinin'  army,
 And supposedly, some  went out for the army, signed on,
 And  up flyin' to Japan with a bomb,
 That 15 kilotonne blast, put an  to the war pretty fast,
 Two cities were  to bits; the end of the war came quick,
 Ken got out, big hopes of a  life, with his kids and his wife,
 But,  they got back to their home,
 What  saw made them feel so alone,
  people had trashed every room,
 Smashed in the windows  bashed in the doors,
  on the walls and the floor,
 "Japs  welcome anymore."
 And Kenji dropped both of his bags at  sides and just stood outside,
 He, looked at  wife without words to say,
  looked back at him wiping tears away,
 And, said  we'll be okay, someday,"
 Now the names have been changed, but  story's true,
 My family  locked up back in '42,
 My family  there it was dark and damp,
 And they called it an  camp
 
 When we first  back from camp... uhh
 It  pretty... pretty bad
 
 I, I  my husband said
  we gonna stay 'til last?"
 Then my  died before they close the camp.