[ti:Killing Me Softly] [ar:Lori Lieberman] [al:A Thousand Dreams] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Killing Me Softly - Lori Lieberman [00:05.48]Written by:Norman Gimbel/Charles Fox [00:10.96]I heard he sang a good song [00:15.04] [00:16.06]I heard he had a style [00:18.65] [00:20.74]And so I came to see him [00:24.47]To listen for a while [00:27.34] [00:30.55]And there he was this young boy [00:34.45] [00:35.60]A stranger to my eyes [00:39.40]Strumming my pain with his fingers [00:43.17] [00:44.11]Singing my life with his words [00:47.60] [00:49.05]Killing me softly with his song [00:52.91]Killing me softly with his song [00:57.70]Telling my whole life with his words [01:02.66]Killing me softly [01:05.26] [01:07.37]With his song [01:10.72] [01:14.28]I felt all flushed with fever [01:18.00] [01:19.19]Embarrassed by the crowd [01:21.96] [01:23.50]I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud [01:31.02] [01:33.28]I prayed that he would finish [01:37.08] [01:38.36]But he just kept right on [01:42.40]Strumming my pain with his fingers [01:46.13] [01:47.03]Singing my life with his words [01:50.82] [01:51.91]Killing me softly with his song [01:55.64]Killing me softly with his song [02:00.52]Telling my whole life with his words [02:05.26]Killing me softly [02:07.69] [02:10.00]With his song [02:12.70] [02:35.38]He sang as if he knew me [02:39.24] [02:40.22]In all my dark despair [02:43.13] [02:44.86]And then he looked right through me [02:48.80]As if I wasn't there [02:52.11] [02:54.28]But he was that a stranger [02:58.04] [02:59.45]Singing clear and strong [03:03.11]Strumming my pain with his fingers [03:06.74] [03:07.75]Singing my life with his words [03:10.97] [03:12.47]Killing me softly with his song [03:16.20]Killing me softly with his song [03:20.94]Telling my whole life with his words [03:25.70]Killing me softly [03:27.95] [03:30.39]With his song