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     Hi, yo yea yea. now this is wyclef refugee   el boogie up in here (doo dooo doo doo)   one time one time one time   hey yo L you know you got the lyrics!     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     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 aloud   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     ohh oh oh oh... ohhhhhhhhhh   aahhh la la ah ah ah ah.....   la la la la la la ohhhhh la la ah   oh oh oh laaaaaa ahhhhhhhhhh     Strumming my pain with his fingers   (yes he was) 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   strummin my pain. yeyeyeyeye