
Date of issue: 31.12.1980
Record label: Fantasy
Song language: English
Killing Me Softly (With His Song) |
Strumming my pain with his fingers, |
Singing my life with his words, |
Killing me softly with his song, |
Killing me softly with his song, |
Telling my whole life with his words, |
Killing me softly with his song … |
I heard he sang a good song, |
I heard he had a style. |
And so I came to see him to listen |
For a while. |
And there he was this young boy, |
a stranger to my eyes. |
Strumming my pain with his fingers, |
Singing my life with his words, |
Killing me softly with his song, |
Killing me softly with his song, |
Telling my whole life with his words, |
Killing me softly with his song … |
I felt all flushed with fever, |
Embarrassed by the crowd, |
I felt he found my letters and read |
Each one out loud. |
I prayed that he would finish but he |
just kept right on… |
Strumming my pain with his fingers, |
Singing my life with his words, |
Killing me softly with his song, |
Killing me softly with his song, |
Telling my whole life with his words, |
Killing me softly with his song … |
He sang as if he knew me in all my dark despair. |
And then he looked right through me |
As if I wasn’t there. |
But he just came to singing, singing |
Clear and strong. |
Strumming my pain with his fingers, |
Singing my life with his words, |
Killing me softly with his song, |
Killing me softly with his song, |
Telling my whole life with his words, |
Killing me softly with his song … |
He was strumming my pain, he was singing my song. |
Killing me softly with his song, |
Killing me softly with his song, |
Telling my whole life with his words, |
Killing me softly with his song… |
With his song … |
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