1st Verse
I heard__he sang_ a good song, I heard he had__a style.
And so__I came__to see__him__ to lis-ten for a-while____
And there__he was__this young-boy, a stran-ger to____my eyes.____

Strum-ming my pain__with his fin - gers,___
Sing - ing my life____with his words.__
Kill - ing me soft-ly with his __song,
Kill - ing me soft-ly____with his__ song.
Tell - ing my whole__life_______with his__words,
Kill - ing me soft-ly______________with his __song.

2nd Verse
I felt__all flushed__with fe-ver, em-bar-rassed by__the crowd,
I felt__he found__ my let-ters and read each one out loud.____
I prayed_ that he__ would fin - ish but he just kept__right on.

Strum-ming my pain__with his fin - gers,___
Sing - ing my life____with his words.__
Kill - ing me soft-ly with his __song,
Kill - ing me soft-ly____with his__ song.
Tell - ing my whole__life_______with his__words,
Kill - ing me soft-ly______________with his __song.

3rd Verse
He sang__as if_____he knew_ me, in all my dark__des-pair.
And then__he looked__right through _me  as if I was-n't there.
But he___was there.___this stran-ger __sing-ing clear_and strong.

Strum-ming my pain__with his fin - gers,___
Sing - ing my life____with his words.__
Kill - ing me soft-ly with his __song,
Kill - ing me soft-ly____with his__ song.
Tell - ing my whole__life_______with his__words,
Kill - ing me soft-ly______________with his __song.
 

Words by Norman Gimbel and Music by Charles Fox