{"id":81723,"date":"2017-02-06T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=81723"},"modified":"2017-02-06T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T12:23:27","slug":"killing-me-softly-with-his-song-music-video-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/02\/killing-me-softly-with-his-song-music-video-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Me Softly With His Song (Music Video of the Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"watch-description-text\" class=\"\">\n<p id=\"eow-description\" class=\"\"><em>Live at Atlantic Records&#8217; 40th Anniversary Concert (1988)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This song is about Don McLean\u2019s big hit<strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/01\/american-pie-the-day-the-music-died-music-video-of-the-week\/\" ><em>American Pie\u2013The Day the Music Died<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dpNdMIAnKko<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-container lyrics\">\n<div class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lyrics<\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Strumming my pain with his fingers<br \/>\nSinging my life with his words<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<br \/>\nTelling my whole life with his words<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I heard he sang a good song<br \/>\nI heard he had a style<br \/>\nAnd so I came to see him<br \/>\nTo listen for a while<br \/>\nAnd there he was this young boy<br \/>\nA stranger to my eyes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Strumming my pain with his fingers<br \/>\nSinging my life with his words<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<br \/>\nTelling my whole life with his words<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I felt all flushed with fever<br \/>\nEmbarassed by the crowd<br \/>\nI felt he found my letters<br \/>\nAnd read each one out loud<br \/>\nI prayed that he would finish<br \/>\nBut he just kept right on<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Strumming my pain with his fingers<br \/>\nSinging my life with his words<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<br \/>\nTelling my whole life with his words<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He sang as if he knew me<br \/>\nIn all my dark despair<br \/>\nAnd then he looked right through me<br \/>\nAs if I wasn&#8217;t there<br \/>\nAnd he just kept on singing<br \/>\nSinging clear and strong<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Strumming my pain with his fingers<br \/>\nSinging my life with his words<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<br \/>\nTelling my whole life with his words<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Strumming my pain with his fingers<br \/>\nSinging my life with his words<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<br \/>\nTelling my whole life with his words<br \/>\nKilling me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He was strumming my pain<br \/>\nYeah, he was singing my life<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<br \/>\nKilling me softly with his song<br \/>\nTelling my whole life with his words<br \/>\nKilling me softly<br \/>\nWith his song<\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution-container\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Written by Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel \u2022 Copyright \u00a9 Sony\/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner\/Chappell Music, Inc, Universal Music Publishing Group<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song is about Don McLean\u2019s big hit, American Pie\u2013The Day the Music 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