Strumming my pain with his fingers   Singing my life with his words   Killing me softly with his song   Killing me softly, yeah, with his song   Telling my whole life with his words   Killing me softly with his song      I heard he sang a good song   And I heard he had a style   And so I went to see him   To listen for a while   And there he was, this stranger   There before 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 letters   And read each one out loud   I prayed that he would finish, oh no   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 dark despair   And then he looked right through me   As if I wasn't there, I was right there   But 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      I wanna be stronger   Yeah, yeah, yeah   Oh my, my, my      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      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