Toby的搖滾音樂異想世界

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.
But he just came to 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 ...

He was strumming, oh, he was singing my song.
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 ...
With his song ...

      這首歌是美國歌手Roberta Flack在1973年所唱，由Charles Fox和 Norman Gimbel所創作。Norman Gimbel談到他作這首的起源：「我60年代中期到加州，有人將我介紹給阿根廷的作曲家Lalo Shifrin，我根據動畫作品寫完這首歌，我建議說一起寫百老匯的音樂劇，他給我一本阿根廷小說，簡單地說，我們從未從這本書寫歌曲，不過有個章節描述一個情節，一個人在唒吧喝酒，然後聽鋼琴手在彈琴，後來我把這個情節寫到歌裡了。」

      這首歌真的太好聽了，聽了幾百遍也不會厭倦。