Killing Me Softly

Words & Music:

Roberta Flack

 

CHORUS:

Em                         Am

Strumming my pain with his fingers.

D7                       G

singing my life with his words.

Em                     A

Killing me softly with his song,

           D           C

Killing me softly with his song,

           G               C

Telling my whole life with his words.

           Esus4           E

Killing me softly with his song.

 

Am7        D                 G          C

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

Am7      D                   Em

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

Am7          D7                     G        B7

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

 

CHORUS:

 

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.

 

CHORUS:

 

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.

And he just kept on singing, singing clear and strong.

 

CHORUS:

 

 




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