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KILLING ME SOFTLY (1973) ROBERTA FLACK

Sérgio Luiz Gallina

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 Lory Lieberman.

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.

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 him, and listen for a while
And there he was, this young boy, a stranger to my eyes

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

He sang as if he knew me, and all my dark despair
He kept on looking right through me as if I wasn't there
And then he kept on singing, singing clear and strong