Translation: Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly with his Song by T Wignesan (poem) by T. Wignesan on AuthorsDen

Translation: Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly with his Song by T Wignesan
by T. Wignesan → (All Poetry by T. Wignesan)
Thursday, April 25, 2019 Rated "G" by the Author.

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Words, a voice and a lament from out of the ages...

Translation of Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly with his Song by T Wignesan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgl-VRdXr7I Refrain : 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 (Ses doigts piquaient les nerfs de ma douleur comme sur un guitare les cordes En chantant ma vie avec ses paroles En m'assassinant doucement avec sa chanson En m'assassinant doucement avec sa chanson En racontant ma vie avec ses paroles En m'assassinant doucement avec sa chanson) 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 (J'ai entendu parler qu'il chantait bien et qu'il �tait dot� d'un style particulier Ainsi je me suis all� lui voir un peu pour lui �couter Et l� ce jeune gars me semblait � mes yeux une �trange vision) 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 (Je me suis senti sur le coup d'une fi�vre accablante devant la foule dans l'embarras Je pensais qu'il ait trouv� mes lettres et les lisait chacune � voix haute-l� Je priais que la lecture soit achev�e mais il continuait sa r�citation) 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 carried on singing, singing clear and strong (Il chantait comme s'il ait eu connaissance de l'ab�me de mon d�sespoir Et puis son regarde posa sur moi comme si je n'y fusse pas l� Mais il n'arr�ta pas � chanter, chantant � voix haute avec d�termination) 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 Songwriters: Norman GImbel / Charles Fox Killing Me Softly lyrics � Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc Artist: Roberta Flack Album: Killing Me Softly Released: 1973 Genre: Classic Soul Awards: Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Grammy Hall of Fame, Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance � Translation : T. Wignesan - Paris, April 23, 2019

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

Reviewed on April 28, 2019

With old songs like this, I want to sing along. But I find that I have forgotten the words. So as soon as I started reading, I started singing. And in doing so, I found that I have no voice anywhere near Roberta Flack! ;-)

I'm sure the French appreciate your translation. I wonder how it works with the melody and if it works as well as the original version.

Ron