ROBERTA FLAKE - KILLING ME SOFTLY

KILLING ME SOFTLY

ROBERTA FLACK

SONGWRITERS: CHARLES FOX; NORMAN GIMBEL & LORI LIEBERMAN

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: KILLING ME SOFTLY

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1973

Killing Me Softly with His Song é uma canção de 1971 composta por Charles Fox e Norman Gimbel, inspirada no poema Killing Me Softly with His Blues de Lori Lieberman, que ela escreveu depois de ver Don McLean cantando a música "Empty Chairs".

A própria Lieberman foi a primeiro a gravar a canção, em 1971, mas foi a versão de Roberta Flack, de 1973, que tornou a canção um sucesso, alcançando o número um na Billboard Hot 100 e ganhando três prêmios Grammy, incluindo o de canção do ano.

Killing Me Softly with His Song teve várias versões covers incluindo Herb Alpert, Engelbert Humperdinck, Frank Sinatra, Nils Landgren, Tori Amos, The Fugees, Alison Moyet, Eva Cassidy, Perry Como, lês Jackson 5, Mina, Anne Murray, Luther Vandross, Joe Dassin, Toni Braxton, Alicia Keys, Jaco Pastorius, Marcus Miller, Plain White T's, Young blood Brass Band, Shirley Bassey, Susan Boyle, Amaury Vassili, John Holt, Tony Rebel & Garnett Silk, Usha Uthup e Kimiko Kasai.

A canção também aparece em uma cena do filme About a Boy, interpretada pelos atores Nicholas Hoult e Hugh Grant.

NOTA: Prêmios: Grammy Award para Record of the Year, mais Indicações: MTV Europe Music Award para Melhor Canção, MTV Video Music Award: Melhor Clipe de um Grupo.

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

And 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 letter

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 darkness fair

And then he looked right through me

As if I wasn't there

And he just kept on 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

Ohhhhhhhhhhh oohhhhhhh...Lalalal..Ohhhh lalaaaaaaa

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)

He was strumming my pain

Yeah he was singing my life

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