Roberta Flack (Charles Fox / Norman Gimbel)

Lori Lieberman blev tagen av Don McLeans “Empty Chairs” på en konsert och skrev ner sina känslor och tog till
låtskrivarna Norman Gimbel och Charles Fox, som byggde låten utifrån hennes upplevelse.
Roberta Flack hörde Liebermans version av en slump på ett flygplan och ska ha sagt: “I have to record this song.”
Lori Lieberman fick fick ingen officiell credit.

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1. I heard he sang a good song. I heard he had style and so I came to see him, to listen for a while
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and there he was, this young boy, a stranger to my eyes.

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Refr. Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words,
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killing me softly with his song, killing me softly with his song,
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telling my whole life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

2. I felt all flubbed with fever, embarrassed with by the crowd. I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud.
I prayed that he would finish but he just kept right on.

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3. He sang as if he knew me in all my dark despair and than he looked right through me as if wasn’t there
but he was there, this stranger, singing clear and strong.

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Refr. ...telling my whole life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

Killing me softly