Killing Me Softly With His Song (Roberta Flack)



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1. I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style.

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And so I came to see him to listen for a while.

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And there he was this young boy, a stranger to my eyes.



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Ref.: Strumming my pain with his fingers,

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singing my life with his words,

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killing me softly with his song,

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killing me softly with his song,

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telling my whole life with his words,

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killing me softly with his song





2. 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.



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3. 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.



Ref.: Strummin...