Fort Minor & Two Of My Favorite Songs

[x635 4,066]

Music, as we all know, is a form of expression, and I just wanted to share a couple of songs.

My favorite style of lyric is Modern Rock/Modern heavy metal. I like Disturbed, Linkin Park, Stone Sour, From Zero, Motograter, Five.Bolt.Main, Element Eight, Dogfight, I, Unnloco, Korn, etc etc...

Recently, I've been listening to "Fort Minor". It's Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park's side band. Their most popular single is "Remember The Name", used in a few commercials......"This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill Fifteen percent concentrated power of will Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!"

However, on his album there are some powerful songs. These are the lyrics of the two that got me thinking, and appreciate (more) all that I have.

The songs have a nice beat, I highly reccomend the album, kind of rock/rap but not very "hardcore", at least to me.

These songs are off the album "The Rising Tied" by Fort Minor (Lyrics From Online Sources)

"Kenji" tells the story of a Japanese immagrant in 1945, and the atrocities commited against him by the US Goverment. Can you imagine this happening nowadays?

My father came from Japan in 1905

He was 15 when he immigrated from Japan

He worked until he was able to buy - to actually 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 "Issei,"

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 is all they gave them,

When the kids asked mom "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 Manzanar,

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 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

People didn't understand

Why did they have to take him?

Because he's an innocent laborer

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 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 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 camp.

"Right Now" just is a story, and I found it interesting.

Someone right now is leaving their apartment

Looking down at the street, wondering where there car went

Someone in the car sitting at a signal

In front of a restaraunt, staring through the window

at someone right now with their finger in their teeth

Who could use a little floss right across the street

there's somebody on the curb who really needs a jacket

spent half the rent at a bar getting plastered

Now he gotta walk fourteen blocks

to work at a shop where he's about to get fired.

Someone right now is looking pretty tired

Staring at a laptop trying to get inspired

Somebody living right across the street

She wrote the best things she's written all week

but her best friends coughing up blood in the sink

Can't even think what happened, feeling so confused

And he knows it looks bad but there's nothing he can do

I wonder what it's like to be right there in his shoes

[Chorus]

But no I'm just taking it in

Out the window of a hotel bedroom again

Tommorrow I'll be gone I don't know when I'll be back

But in this world everything can change just like that,

Like that

Yo somebody right now is dropping his vote inside a box

And trying not to get shot in his throat

For the act of freedom right now somebody is stuck in Iraq

Hoping that he gets shipped back breathing

in a war that he's not really sure of the reasons

So we show our support when the press mislead them

Though we more then remain proud and salute the troops

get some I know you boys got some work to do

Meanwhile right now someones 25 to life

And is standing on the corner with their thumb up hitchiking

Stratching off a lotto ticket hoping for a real winner

Sneaking through the border just to work and to eat a real dinner

Right now someone wishes they were you were not

instead of second guessing freedom thoughts of quiet suicide

But right now I'm staring at the window at a frame

with holes in his arm and holes in his jeans

he pulled out his ciggerette sparked the light

And walked right around the corner just outta my sight

But yo I'm just taking it in

From the second story hotel window again,

The TV's on, and my bags are packed,

But in this world everything can change just like that,

Like that

[Repeat]

Ya right now somebody sitting in the darkness

Trying to figure out how to put some heat in their apartment

But they got a little matress and a little carpet

And they appreciate it 'cause some people on a park bench

You see them when you rushing to get to the office

wife robbed blind when she coming from the market

Right now somebody coming out from the pocket

Trying to dump that rock they run around the block with at

The same time the cops is raising the glock with aim

To fill your legs and back with some hot shit

Right now somebody struggling to stop this man

Who's kick and punching and cussing at the doctors

Down the hall the child taking his first breath

The doctors ain't even passed him to the nurse yet yo

I wonder if he understands what it's worth yet

Like the time spent while we here on the earth yet

The answer to the question that we all seek

can be found depend on how free y'all think

Right now it's somebody who ain't eat all week

That would kill for the shit that you throw away in the street

I guess ones mans trash is the next mans treaure

One mans pain is the next mans pleasure

one say infinity the next say forever

right now erbody got to get it together man

I'm just taking it in another strange hotel lobby again

Put my luggage on my back I don't know where I'm at

I'm in world where we all change just like that,

Like that, like that, just like that, like that, just like that

Just like that, Just like that

"High Road"

Lets go ya'll

These people are running off at the mouth

Tryin to convince me that I'm running on empty

Tryin to convince themselves that the record with Jay was a fluke

That the record that I'm makin is a mistake

and I cant take this

Lemme tell you where I'm at with this

You bastards are gonna have to take back that shit

I'm not plastic and fake

When I make tracks I take facts and lay them out for the masses

You assholes are gonna see soon that I'm not playin

Start askin me the names that I'm not sayin

But I'm tryin to be bigger than the bickerin

bigger than the petty name callin

under the breath talkin

rumors and labels and categorization

I'm like a struggling doctor, No patients

But you can say what you want about me

keep talkin while I'm walkin away

You can say what you have to say

cuz my mind's made up anyway

I'm taking the high road going above you

this is the last time that I'm gonna trust you

You can say what you have to say

cuz my mind's made up anyway

all that bullshit you talk might work a lot

but it's not gonna work today

You people are running off at the mouth

Tryin to make me take myself off safety

Tryin to make my friends turn their backs on the team we built

buildin up some mistaken information

and I cant take this

lemme spell it out plain for you

angry groups complain about the things we do

im not changing direction, I'm stepping my game up

Maintainin my name, the same way I came up

You're gonna see that I'm not playin

start asking the names that I'm not sayin

but im tryin not to mention the names of people who wanna sight and attention

You like the hype but pretendin you're part of the picture wont pass

You're like a high school dropout, no class

You can say what you want about me

keep talkin while i'm walkin away bitch

You can say what you have to say

cuz my mind's made up anyway

I'm taking the high road going above you

this is the last time that I'm gonna trust you

You can say what you have to say

cuz my mind's made up anyway

all that bullshit you talk might work a lot

but it's not gonna work today

Why does it always have to be

Somebody's always watching me

All I really need is some room to breathe

Is anybody out there listening?

Cuz I cant stand to keep this in

All I really want, I'll say it again

You can say what you have to say

cuz my mind's made up anyway

I'm taking the high road going above you

this is the last time that I'm gonna trust you

You can say what you have to say

cuz my mind's made up anyway

all that bullshit you talk might work a lot

but it's not gonna work today

[Remember585 815]

I guess I'm not the only one with that album. I got it last year when it came out, as a loyal LP fan I figured it would be good, and it was. I just wish I didn't leave it at the firehouse where it walked....

[xfirefighter484x 234]

Yup, I have had it since last year as well, shortly after it came out. I have always liked "Right Now" as well.

Good taste Seth!!

If you like them at all, check out the new Linkin Park LP, "Minutes to Midnight", There are soem very interesting tracks in there, especially "Hands Held High", enjoy those lyrics!

[HFD750 6]

Yeah GREAT cd. Love it... The new LP cd is good too....