Kenji

歌词

• My father came from Japan in 1905
• 我的父亲是在1905年的时候
• He was 15 when he immigrated from Japan
• 从日本迁徙过来的,那时候他只有15岁
• He he he worked until he was able to buy this patch
• 他一直努力工作直到能够买这块小土地
• And build a store
• 实际上是建个杂货店
• Let me tell you the story in the form of a dream
• 让我来告诉你这个与梦一样的故事
• I don't know why I have to tell it but I know what it means
• 我也不知道为什么要说，但我知道它一定意味着什么
• Close your eyes just picture the scene
• 闭上你的眼睛，跟我一起描绘这幅画面吧
• As I paint it for you it was World War II
• 那是在第二次世界大战
• When this man named Kenji woke up
• 有一个叫做KENJI的男人
• Ken was not a soldier
• 他并非是一名士兵
• He was just a man with a family who owned a store in LA
• 他只是一名普通人，拥有一个幸福的家庭，并且在洛杉机开了一家小店
• That day he crawled out of bed like he always did
• 这天，他像往常一样从床上爬起来
• Bacon and eggs with wife and kids
• 为他的妻儿准备好了熏肉和鸡蛋
• He lived on the second floor of a little store he ran
• 然后从楼上下来到自己的小店里边
• He moved to LA from Japan
• 他从日本搬到洛杉机
• They called him 'Immigrant '
• 美国人称他为：移民
• In Japanese he'd say he was called Esay
• 日本人称他为：ISSEI
• That meant 'First Generation In The United States '
• 这个名称的含义是：在美国的第一代人
• When everyone was afraid of the Germans afraid of the Japs
• 那段时候，每个人都在恐惧着德国人，恐惧着日本人
• But most of all afraid of a homeland attack
• 但是最恐惧的是对本土的袭击
• And that morning when Ken went out on the doormat
• 在那个早晨，当KENJI出门踩在门外的垫子上的时候
• His world went black 'cause
• 他整个世界被黑暗铺满
• Right there front page news
• 因为在那张报纸的头版赫然写着
• Three weeks before 1942
• 1942年前的三个礼拜
• Pearl Harbour's Been Bombed And The Japs Are Comin'
• 日本人空袭珍珠港
• Pictures of soldiers dyin' and runnin'
• 旁边的图片上是一群死亡和逃跑的士兵
• Ken knew what it would lead to
• KEN知道这意味着什么
• Just like he guessed the President said
• 就像他意料的那样，总统命令：
• The evil Japanese in our home country will be locked away
• 我们要把在我们国家的这些邪恶的日本鬼子关起来
• They gave Ken a couple of days
• 他们给KEN几天的时间
• To get his whole life packed in two bags
• 只给了他两个口袋让他带上自己生活的全部
• Just two bags couldn't even pack his clothes
• 仅仅两个口袋连衣服都装不完
• Some folks didn't even have a suitcase to pack anything in
• 一些人甚至都没有一个手提箱来装任何东西
• So two trash bags was all they gave them
• 两个破口袋就是他们所给的全部
• When the kids asked mum Where are we goin'
• 孩子们问他们的妈妈：我们要去哪里？
• Nobody even knew what to say to them
• 但是没人知道怎么去回答可怜的孩子
• Ken didn't wanna lie he said The US is lookin' for spies
• KEN也不想对他的孩子撒谎，他说：美国人在找间谍
• So we have to live in a place called Mandinar
• 所以我们到一个新的地方去住，叫做Manzanar
• Where a lot of Japanese people are
• 很多的日本人都在那里住
• Stop it don't look at the gunmen
• 别去招惹那些枪手
• You don't wanna get the soldiers wonderin'
• 你不会想引起他们怀疑
• If you gonna run or not
• 你究竟是否想逃跑
• 'Cause if you run then you might get shot
• 你跑的会比子弹快吗
• Other than that try not to think about it
• 除此之外,就不要去想它了
• Try not to worry 'bout it bein' so crowded
• 尽量不要去抱怨这一切的烦恼
• Someday we'll get out someday someday
• 总有一天我们就会出去了，总有一天,总有一天
• As soon as war broke out
• 战争爆发以后
• The G I came and they just come to the house and
• FBI闯进他们的房子里边
• You have to come
• 你留下
• All the Japanese have to go
• 所有日本人都出去
• They took Mr Lee
• 就这样他们带走了Li先生
• People didn't understand
• 人们都不理解
• Why did they have to take him
• 为什么把他抓走
• Because he's an innocent labourer
• 他只是一个无辜的工人啊!
• So now they're in a town with soldiers surroundin' them
• 就这样人们被大兵们看守在一个镇子上
• Every day every night look down at them
• 不分白天黑夜的监视着
• From watch towers up on the wall
• 从墙上的瞭望塔
• Ken couldn't really hate them at all
• 但是KEN并不真正的恨这些士兵
• They were just doin' their job and
• 他们也只是做自己份内的工作
• He wasn't gonna make any problems
• 而且他也不会惹麻烦的
• He had a little garden with vegetables and fruits that
• 他有一个种满果蔬的园子
• He gave to the troops in a basket his wife made
• 把它们放在他妻子做的篮子里,送给军队
• But in the back of his mind he wanted his families life saved
• 但是在他的心里,他只是希望他家人的生命能得到安全
• Prisoners of war in their own damn country
• 自己国家的人却成了战争的俘虏
• What for
• 什么道理？
• Time passed in the prison town
• 时间一天天过去了
• He wanted them to live it down when they were free
• 他期盼着得到自由的那天
• The only way out was joinin' the army
• 唯一的出路是加入军队
• And supposedly some men went out for the army signed on
• 一些人加入了军队
• And ended up flyin' to Japan with a bomb
• 带着炸弹回到了日本
• That 15 kilotonne blast put an end to the war pretty fast
• 1.5亿吨的爆炸力使离战争结束不远了.
• Two cities were blown to bits the end of the war came quick
• 两个城市消失了，战争很快结束了
• Ken got out big hopes of a normal life with his kids and his wife
• KEN出狱后满怀着期望能够和妻儿团聚了
• But when they got back to their home
• 但是当他们回到他们以前的家的时候
• What they saw made them feel so alone
• 他所看到的一切让他们感到孤独无助
• These people had trashed every room
• 把窗户和门也砸的稀烂
• Smashed in the windows and bashed in the doors
• 把窗户和门也砸的稀烂
• Written on the walls and the floor
• 并且在墙上写道：
• Japs not welcome anymore
• 日本人再也不受欢迎了
• And Kenji dropped both of his bags at his sides and just stood outside
• KENJI怔在了门外，那两个口袋从他手里滑落
• He looked at his wife without words to say
• 他看着他的妻子,说不出一句话
• She looked back at him wiped the tears away
• 她悄悄转过身,抹去眼泪
• And said Someday we'll be okay someday
• 伤心地说:总有一天会好起来,总有一天
• Now the names have been changed but the story's true
• 现在故事的主人翁换了，但是故事是真实的
• My family was locked up back in '42
• 我的家庭曾经在1942年的时候被关押起来
• My family was there it was dark and damp
• 他们被关在的那个阴暗潮湿的地方
• And they called it an internment camp
• 现在我们称之为 ：集中营
• When we first got back from camp uhh
• 当我们第一次从那出来的时候
• It was pretty pretty bad
• 真的 那真的很糟糕
• I I remember my husband said
• 我记得我丈夫说过
• Are we gonna stay 'til last
• 我们一定能撑到出去的时候的
• Then my husband died before they close the
• 但我丈夫在集中营关闭之前就已经死了
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