Learn with song "Killing Me Softly With His Song"

"Killing Me Softly With His Song" is one of my favorite English songs, especially Roberta Flack's version. She has a beautiful voice. I heard the song the first time in my English class. My teacher played it with a cassette player. He taught us new words and how to sing it. He is really a great teacher.

Vocabulary

strum /strʌm/ (verb): to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.

flushed /flʌʃt/ (adjective): (of a person's skin) red and hot, typically as the result of illness or strong emotion.

fever /ˈfiː.vɚ/ (noun): (illness) a ​medical ​condition in which the ​body ​temperature is ​higher than ​usual and the ​heart ​beats very ​fast.

embarrassed /ɪmˈber.əst/ (adjective): feeling ​ashamed or ​shy.

pray /preɪ/ (verb): to speak to ​God or a ​god either privately or in a ​religious ​ceremony esp. to ​express ​thanks or to ​ask for ​help.

despair /dɪˈspɛər/ (noun): loss of hope; hopelessness.

The definitions of the words are from the Cambridge Dictionaries Online. You should use your own dictionary to look up for them if you find the above definitions too hard to understand.

Video song

"Killing Me Softly With His Song" - Roberta Flack.

Lyrics

"Killing Me Softly With His Song"

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 heard he sang a good song
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him
To listen for a while
And there he was this young boy
A 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

He sang as if he knew me
In all my dark despair
And then he looked right through me
As if I wasn't there
And he just kept on singing
Singing clear and strong

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

[Break]

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

He was strumming my pain
Yeah, he was singing my life
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

Song with lyrics

Bonus

An acoustic guitar cover

Learn with song "Killing Me Softly With His Song" 2016-03-16T20:15:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown