it's killing me

Please can anyone supply me with an English translation of Omara Potuondo singing "Killing Me Softly", on the Rhythms del Mundo album (which, by the way, is an extremely odd collection of songs)

Are you asking for the words to "Killing Me Softly (With His Words)" originally performed by Roberta Flack or is the version you are looking for another song altogether? Here's Roberta Flack's lyrics. I just discovered on wikipedia that it is a cover of Roberta Flack's song. For more info, go here: Rhythms del Mundo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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 ...

Dear Logan01,

Many thanks for getting back to me and supplying the English lyrics. I don't know whether these are the exact, word-for-word lyrics of the song as sang by Omora Portuondo in Spanish. I don't even know if she is singing the Flack version. What I really need are not a translation as such but the actual Spanish lyrics. Then I can try to translate them (after a fashion) myself.

Well shoot. Thought I did good. Wish I was fluent in Spanish. Hope someone can help you on this.

Dear Logan01.

My original message was very misleading. So don't beat yourself up about it. Thank you again for replying anyway.

Regards, David

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Son tantas las cosas que dice
Canta mi historia essa voz
Suave me mata su ritmo e sus acordes
Yo he visto toda mi vida
Pasando por sus palabras, su emocion

OÃ* que alguien cantaba
Una buena cancion
Era um muchacho dulce
Un angel dije yo

Que estilo aquel
que suerte
tuve en conocerle

Toca mi piel cuando dice
Ondas palabras de amor
Suave me mata su ritmo
Y a encontrarle ya nada
Parezco extrano
me hizo sentir de nuevo la pasion

Pedazos de mi vida
marraba su cancion
De donde me conoce?
Qué estrano pense yo
Cantaba mi esperanza y um poco mi dolor

Suave me mata este canto
Sostiene mi vida esa voz
Suave me mata este ritmo
essa mirada sonrisa cambia mi vida
cantando com toda alma su cancion

Atrás quedan temores
Toda la soledad
Un nuevo solo inunda
Entera la ciudad

La conoci cantando con su cancion y encanto
Una emocion increible
Canta mi vida esta voz
Cancion que me matando
Y me despierta su ritmo tan dulces suenos dormidos
Nuevos caminos de mi amor

Killing me softly
Killing me softly