Strumming your pain with these fingers Singing your life with these words Killing you softly with this song I'm killing you softly with this song Telling your whole life with these words I'm killing you softly with this song I heard you sang a good song I heard you had a style And so I came to see you And listen for a while And there you were, this young girl A stranger to my eyes Strumming your pain with these fingers Singing your life with these words Killing you softly with this song I'm killing you softly with this song Telling your whole life with these words I'm killing you softly with this song I felt all flushed with fever Embarrassed by the crowd I felt you found my letters And read each one out loud I prayed that you would finish But you just kept right on Strumming your pain with these fingers Singing your life with these words Killing you softly with this song I'm killing you softly with this song Telling your whole life with these words I'm killing you softly with this song La... I'm just killing you softly Yeah, yeah With this song Oh-oh-oh Strumming your pain Oh-oh-oh She wasn't in my life Yeah Killing you softly with this song I'm killing you softly With this song Telling your whole life With these words I'm killing you softly With this song Oh-oh-oh