JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Killing Me Softly with His Song" adalah lagu keluaran 1973 dari penyanyi kenamaan Amerika, Roberta Flack.
Lagu ini dirilis lewat albumnya yang juga berjudul Killing Me Softly with His Song.
Album yang mengusung delapan lagu tersebut dirilis di bawah naungan label Atlantic Records.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Feel Like Makin Love - Roberta Flack
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Killing Me Softly with His Song" dari Roberta Flack.
[Chorus]
Em Am
Strumming my pain with his fingers
D G
singing my life with his words
Em A
killing me softly with his song
D C
killing me softly with his song
G C
telling my whole life with his words.
F
Killing me softly
E
with his song.
Am D Am D Am D Am D
oooo -ooo oooo -ooo oooo -ooo
[Verse]
Am D
I heard he sang a good song
G C
I heard he had a style
Am D
and so I came to see him
Em
to listen for a while.
Am D
And there he was this young boy
G B
a stranger to my eyes.
[Chorus]
Em Am
Strumming my pain with his fingers
D G
singing my life with his words
Em A
killing me softly with his song
D C
killing me softly with his song
G C
telling my whole life with his words.
F
Killing me softly
E
with his song.
[Verse]
Am D
I felt all flushed with fever
G C
embarrassed by the crowd.
Am D
I felt he found my letters
Em
and read each one out loud.
Am D
I prayed that he would finish
G B
but he just kept right on.
[Chorus]
Em Am
Strumming my pain with his fingers
D G
singing my life with his words
Em A
killing me softly with his song
D C
killing me softly with his song
G C
telling my whole life with his words.
F
Killing me softly
E
with his song.
[Verse]
Am D
He sang as if he knew me
G C
in all my dark despair.
Am D
And then he looked right through me
Em
as if I wasn't there.
Am D
And he just kept on singing
G B
singing clear and strong.
[Chorus]
Em Am
Strumming my pain with his fingers
D G
singing my life with his words
Em A
killing me softly with his song
D C
killing me softly with his song
G C
telling my whole life with his words.
F
Killing me softly
E
with his song.
Em Am
Ooooh oh ohhh
D G
Oh oh oh ohhh oh oh oh ohhh
Em A
La la la, la la la
D C
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
G C F
La aaa ah aaaah
E
La ah ah ah ah aah
Em Am
Strumming my pain with his fingers
D G
singing my life with his words
Em A
killing me softly with his song
D C
killing me softly with his song
G C
telling my whole life with his words.
F
Killing me softly
E
[Ending]
Em Am
He was strumming my pain
D G
Yeah, he was singing my life
Em A
killing me softly with his song
D C
killing me softly with his song
G C
telling my whole life with his words.
F
Killing me softly
E
with his song.