文本歌词

My father came from japan
In 1905
He was 15
When he immigrated
From japan
He he he worked
Until he was able to buy
This patch
And build a store
Let me 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 means
Close your eyes
Just picture the scene
As I paint it for you
It was world war II
When this man named
Kenji woke up
Ken was not a soldier
He was just a man
With a family
Who owned a store in LA
That day
He crawled out of bed
Like he always did
Bacon and eggs with
Wife and kids
He lived on the second floor
Of a little store he ran
He moved to LA from japan
They called him 'immigrant '
In japanese he'd say
He was called esay
That meant 'first generation
In the united states '
When everyone was afraid of
The germans afraid of the japs
But most of all afraid of
A homeland attack
And that morning when ken
Went out on the doormat
His world went black 'cause
Right there front page news
Three weeks before 1942
Pearl harbour's been bombed
And the japs are comin'
Pictures of soldiers dyin' and runnin'
Ken knew what it would lead to
Just like he guessed the president said
The evil japanese
In our home country
Will be locked away
They gave ken a couple of days
To get his whole life
Packed in two bags
Just two bags couldn't
Even pack his clothes
Some folks
Didn't even have a suitcase
To pack anything in
So two trash bags
Was all they gave them
When the kids asked mum
Where are we goin'
Nobody even knew
What to say to them
Ken didn't wanna lie
He said the US is
Lookin' for spies
So we have to
Live in a place
Called mandinar
Where a lot of japanese people are
Stop it don't look at the gunmen
You don't wanna
Get the soldiers wonderin'
If you gonna run or not
'cause if you run then
You might get shot
Other than that try not to
Think about it
Try not to worry 'bout it
Bein' so crowded
Someday we'll get out
Someday someday
As soon as war broke out
The G I came and they
Just come to the house and
You have to come
All the japanese have to go
They took mr lee
People didn't understand
Why did
They have to take him
Because he's
An innocent labourer
So now they're in a town
With soldiers surroundin' them
Every day every night
Look down at them
From watch towers up on the wall
Ken couldn't really hate them at all
They were
Just doin' their job and
He wasn't gonna make any problems
He had a little garden
With vegetables and fruits that
He gave to the troops
In a basket his wife made
But in the back of his mind
He wanted his families life saved
Prisoners of war
In their own damn country
What for
Time passed in the prison town
He wanted them to live it down
When they were free
The only way out
Was joinin' the army
And supposedly some men
Went out for the army signed on
And ended up flyin' to
Japan with a bomb
That 15 kilotonne blast
Put an end to
The war pretty fast
Two 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 wife
But when they
Got back to their home
What they saw
Made them feel so alone
These people
Had trashed every room
Smashed in the windows
And bashed in the doors
Written on the walls and the floor
Japs not welcome anymore
And kenji dropped both of his bags
At his sides
And just stood outside
He looked at his wife
Without words to say
She looked back at him
Wiped the tears away
And said someday
We'll be okay someday
Now the names have been changed
But the story's true
My family was
Locked up back in '42
My family was
There it was dark and damp
And they called it
An internment camp
When we first
Got back from camp uhh
It was pretty pretty bad
I I remember my husband said
Are we gonna stay 'til last
Then my husband died
Before they close the