♪
You know this one, huh?
♪ 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. ♪
♪ JOAQUINA: I heard he sang a good song. ♪
♪ I heard he had a style. ♪
♪ And so I came to see him. ♪
♪ BOTH: To listen for a while. ♪
♪ JOAQUINA: And there he was, this young boy. ♪
♪ Stranger to my eyes. ♪
♪ BOTH: Strumming my pain with his fingers. ♪
♪ Singing my life with his words. ♪
♪ Killing me softly with his song. ♪
♪ JOAQUINA: Killing me softly. ♪
♪ With his song. ♪
♪ Telling my whole life. ♪
♪ With his words. ♪
♪ Killing me softly. ♪
♪ With his song. ♪
♪ CYNTHIA: I felt all flushed with fever. ♪
♪ Embarrassed by the crowd. ♪
♪ I felt he'd 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. ♪
♪ JOAQUINA: One time. ♪
♪ CYNTHIA: Singing my life with his words. ♪
♪ JOAQUINA: Two times. ♪
♪ CYNTHIA: 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. ♪
♪ BOTH: Whoa, oh-oh-oh. ♪
♪ Whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-whoa-oh-oh ♪
♪ La-la-la, la-la-la. ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh, la-da-ah ♪
♪ Whoa-oh-oh, ♪
♪ La-da-ah-ah-ah-ah. ♪
♪ La-ah-ah- ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪
♪ Strumming my pain with his fingers. ♪
♪ (Cynthia vocalizing) ♪
♪ JOAQUINA: Singing my life with his words. ♪
♪ CYNTHIA: Ohh. ♪
♪ JOAQUINA: Killing me softly with his song. ♪
♪ CYNTHIA: His song. ♪
♪ JOAQUINA: Killing me softly. ♪
♪ CYNTHIA: Killing me softly. ♪
♪ JOAQUINA: With his song. ♪
♪ Telling my whole life with his words. ♪
♪ BOTH: Killing me softly. ♪
♪ With his song. ♪
(music ends)
♪ (vocals and synth only) ♪
♪ 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. ♪ ♪
(applause).