# Strumming dub plates with our fingers,
# Eliminate sounds with our song,
# Killing a sound boy with this sound,
# Killing a sound boy with this sound,
# Taking sound boys lives with this dub,
# Killing him softly with this sound.
# Strumming my pain with his fingers,
# Singing my life with his words,
# Killing me softly with his song,
# Killing me softly with his song,
# Telling my whole life with his words,
# Killing me softly with his song.
# [lauryn]
# I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style,
# And so I came to see him and listen for a while.
# And there he was this young boy, stranger to my eyes,
# Strumming my pain with his fingers,
# Singing my life with his words,
# Killing me softly with his song,
# Killing me softly with his song,
# Telling my whole life with his words,
# Killing me softly with his song.
# I felt all flushed with fever,
# Embarrassed 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 strumming my pain with his fingers,
# Singing my life with his words,
# Killing me softly with his song,
# Killing me softly with his song,
# Telling my whole life with his words,
# Killing me softly with his song
# [clef]
# Yo l-boogie, take it to the bridge
# [lauryn]
# (bust it)
# Strumming my pain with his fingers,
# Singing my life with his words,
# Killing me softly with his song,
# Killing me softly with his song,
# Telling my whole life with his words,
# Killing me softly with his song.
# Strumming my pain with his finger, yeah he was . . .
# [shoutouts and fade]