Lauryn Hill Killing Me Softly

Текст песни "Lauryn Hill — Killing Me Softly"

«Killing Me Softly with His Song» — песня, написанная в 1971 году и ставшая фактически стандартом поп-музыки. Музыка Чарльз Фокс, слова Норман Гимбел (Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel). В основу популярной песни были положены стихи Лори Либерман (Lori Lieberman) «Killing Me Softly with His Blues» («Своим блюзом/настроением он нежно убивает меня»), на которые Лори Либерман была вдохновлена, по ее признанию, выступлением на тот момент еще неизвестного Дона МакЛина (Don McLean) в клубе Трубадур в Лос-Анджелесе в 1971 году.

I heard she sang a good song, I heard she had a style.
And so I came to see her and listen for a while.
And there she was this young girl, a stranger to my eyes.

Strumming my pain with her fingers,
singing my life with her words,
killing me softly with her song,
killing me softly with her song,
telling my whole life with her words,
killing me softly with her song

I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd,
I felt she found my letters and read each one out loud.
I prayed that she would finish but she just kept right on.

Strumming my pain with her fingers,
singing my life with her words,
killing me softly with her song,
killing me softly with her song,
telling my whole life with her words,
killing me softly with her song

She sang as if he knew me in all my dark despair
and then she looked right through me as if I wasn't there.
But she just came to singing, singing clear and strong.

Strumming my pain with her fingers,
singing my life with her words,
killing me softly with her song,
killing me softly with her song,
telling my whole life with her words,
killing me softly with her song