Killing me Softly
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Key: Em, original Fm Measure: 4/4 binary Genre: Pop Style: Song |
Chords: A Am B7 C D D7 E Em Esus F G |
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| Refr.: |Strumming my pain with his |fingers. | |Em |Am | | |
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|Singing my life with his |words. |
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|Killing me softly with |his song, killing me |
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|softly with |his song. |
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Telling my |whole life with |his words killing me |
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|softly | · · with his |
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|song. | · · · · | |
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1. | · · I heard he |sang a good song. |
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| · · I heard he |had a style. |
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| · · And so I |came to see him and |
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|listen for a while. | · · · · |
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| · · And there he |was this young boy |
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| · · a stranger |to my eyes. |
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Refr.: |Strumming my pain ... |
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2. | · · I felt all |flushed with fever |
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| · · embarrassed |by the crowd. |
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| · · I felt he |found my letters and |
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|read each one out loud| · · · · |
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| · · I prayed that |he would finish |
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| · · but he just |kept right on. |
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Refr.: |Strumming my pain ... |
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3. | · · He sang as |if he knew me |
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| · · in all my |dark despair. |
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| · · And then he |looked right through me as |
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|if I wasn't there. | · · · · |
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| · · And he just |kept on singing |
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| · · singing |clear and strong. |
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Refr.: |Strumming my pain ... |
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