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Fort Minor - Kenji
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'My father came from Japan in 1905. He was fifteen when he immigrated 
From Japan. He worked until he was able to buy-to actually build a store.'

Let me tell you a 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 and 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 iisei/that meant 
First generation in the united states when 
Everybody 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 Harbor's been bombed and 'the japs are coming' 
Pictures of soldiers dying and running 
Ken knew what it would lead to 
And just like he guessed/the president said 
The 'evil Japanese' in our home country would be locked away 
They gave ken a couple of days 
To get his whole life packed into two bags 
Just two bags 
He couldn't even pack his clothes 
And some folks didn't even have a suitcase 
To pack anything in 
So two trash bags is all they gave them 
And when the kids asked mom/where are we going 
Nobody even knew what to say to them 
Ken didn't want to lie 
He said the US is looking for spies 
So we have to live in a place called manzanar
Where a lot of Japanese people are 
Stop it/don't look at the gunmen 
You don't wanna get the soldiers wondering 
If you're gonna run or not 'cause if you run then you might get shot 
Other than that/try to not think about it
Try not to worry 'bout it being so crowded 
Cause someday we'll get out/someday/someday

'Yeah, soon as war broke out, the F.B.I. came and' they just come to the house 
And, you have to come. All the Japanese have to go. They took Mr.Ni, the people 
Couldn't understand, why did they have to take him because he's just an innocent laborer''

So now they're in a town with soldiers surrounding them
Every day night/looked down at them
From watchtowers up on the wall
Ken couldn't really hate them at all
They were just doing their job and
He wasn't gonna make any problems
He had a little garden/vegetables and fruits that he have to the troops
In a basket his wife made
But in the back of his mind he wanted his family's life saved
Prisoners of war in their own damn country
What for?

And time passed in the prison town/he wondered
If he'd live it down if and when they were free
The only way out was joining the army/and supposedly
Some men went out for the army/signed on
And ended up flying to Japan with a bomb
That 15 kiloton blast put an end to the war pretty fast
Two cities were blown to bits
The end of the war came quick
And ken got out
Big hopes of a normal life with his kids and his wife/but
Then they got back to their home/and
What they saw made him 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 his bags at his sides and just stood outside
He looked at his wife without words to say
And she looked back at him wiping 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
Where it was dark and damp
And they called it an 'internment camp.'

'When we first got back from camp, it was pretty bad.'
'I remember my husband said, 'oh, we're going to stay 'til last.'
Then my husband died before they closed the camp.'