[Hook: Lauryn Hill]
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
[Verse 1: Fugees]
Hi, yo yea yea
This is Wyclef refugee
El boogie up in here…
Rise well, little
While I'm on this I got my girl L
One time! One time!
One time, one time, one time
Hey yo L you know you got the lyrics
[Lauryn Hill:]
I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him and listen for a while
And there he was this young boy, stranger to my eyes
Strumming my pain with his fingers
(One time, one time)
Singing my life with his words
(Two times, two times)
[Hook: Lauryn Hill]
Killing me softly with this song, killing me softly
With his song, telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
[Verse 2: Lauryn Hill]
I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd
I felt he found my letters then read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish but he just kept right on
[Hook: Lauryn Hill]
Strumming my pain with his fingers
(One time, one time)
Singing my life with his words
(Two times, two times)
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
[Wyclef Jean:]
Yo L-Boogie, boy L boy L, take it to the bridge
[Hook: Lauryn Hill]
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Yes he was 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