I heard she sang a good song, I heard she had a style.
And so I came to see her and listen for a while.
And there she was this young girl, a stranger to my eyes.
Strumming my pain with her fingers,
singing my life with her words,
k**ing me softly with her song,
k**ing me softly with her song,
telling my whole life with her words,
k**ing me softly with her song
I felt all flushed with fever, embarra**ed by the crowd,
I felt she 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 her fingers,
singing my life with her words,
k**ing me softly with her song,
k**ing me softly with her song,
telling my whole life with her words,
k**ing me softly with her song
She sang as if he knew me in all my dark despair
and then she looked right through me as if I wasn't there.
But she just came to singing, singing clear and strong.
Strumming my pain with her fingers,
singing my life with her words,
k**ing me softly with her song,
k**ing me softly with her song,
telling my whole life with her words,
k**ing me softly with her song