What's up good people of earth!
Today I am rocking the Boss RC-20XL for another loop, this time it's song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel with the collaboration of Lori LIeberman in 1971
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It's "Killing Me Softly", and I ain't gonna lie, I really enjoy singing this song.
The man that Lori Lieberman talks about in the song, is the singer Don MClean (American Pie), and she was embarrassed of it for a very long time.She talks about how she learnt how to love the song again:
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What is crazy, is that the song was apparently composed in literally 10 minutes, by Charles Fox, you can see a video here of him talking about the genesis on the song
The great Roberta Flack's version leans toward the Bossa Nova side of things in 1973, adds the famous "woooooooh", but the song got really famous with Lauryn Hill and The Fugees, with a Hip Hop version that shook the world in 1996.
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I hope that I managed to grasp the spirit of it, I had to change the lyrics from her woman to a man perspective,
I will leave you with the lyrics modified
Strumming my pain with this fingers
Singing my life with these words
Killing me softly with this song
Killing me softly with this song
Telling my whole life with this words
Killing me softly with her song
I heard she sang a good song, I heard he had a style
And so I came to see her, to listen for a while
And there she was, this young girl, a stranger to my eyes
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Strumming my pain with this fingers
Singing my life with this words
Killing me softly with this song
Killing me softly with this song
Telling my whole life with this words
Killing me softly with her song
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I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd
I felt she'd found my letters and read each one out loud
I prayed that she would finish, but she just kept right on
Strumming my pain with this fingers
Singing my life with this words
Killing me softly with her song
Killing me softly with her song
Telling my whole life with her words
Killing me softly , with her song
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