Struming my pain with his fingers   Singing my life with his words   Killing me softy 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   Struming my pain with his fingers   Singing my life with his words   Killing me softy 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 eachone out loud   I prayed that he would finish   But he just kept right on      Struming my pain with his fingers   Singing my life with his words   Killing me softy 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      Struming my pain with his fingers   Singing my life with his words   Killing me softy 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      Struming my pain with his fingers   Singing my life with his words   Killing me softy with his song   Killing me softly with his song   Telling my whole life   With his words   Killing me (softly)      He was strumming my pain   Yes 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