Strummin my pain with his fingers
Singin 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
Yea yea yea do do do do do do do...

I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style,
And so I came to see him and listen for a while
And there he was this young boy, stranger to my eyes

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Strummin my pain with his fingers
Singin 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. Embarrased by the crowd,
I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud,
I pray that he would finish. But he just kept right on...

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*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 was there, this stranger, singing clear and loud..

Wooooooaaaa ohhhhhhhhhh laaaa la la la la la la
ohhh la laaa woaaa laa... Aaaalaaaaaa