1971年，美国民谣女歌手Lori Lieberman在一次偶然的机缘下，去听了当时还并不见传的另一位民谣歌手Don Mclean的现场演唱。Lori Lieberman被Don的一首歌“Empty chair”深深地打动了，她随后写下诗歌“Killing me softly with his blues”。这首诗后来被Charles Fox和Norman Gimbel创作成了歌曲“Killing me softly with his song”,并由Lori Lieberman亲自演唱。但真正让这首歌走红的是美国老牌黑人女歌手Roberta Flack，1973年，Flack碰巧在飞机上听到这歌，下飞机后立马找到作者要求录制这歌，结果一个月里登上BILLBOARD的冠军，接下来又收录在一张专辑里，获得当年GRAMMY年度最佳女流行歌手、最佳专辑、最佳歌曲奖。
中英歌词对照
Killing Me Softly with His Song
他用歌声将我温柔处死
Strumming my pain with his fingers
他用指尖拨动我心苦楚
Singing my life with his words
他用言语吟唱我的一生
Killing me softly with his song
他用歌声将我温柔处死
Killing me softly with his song
他用歌声将我温柔处死
Telling my whole life with his words
他用言语道尽我的一生
Killing me softly with his song
他用歌声将我温柔处死
I heard he sang a good song
我听到他吟唱佳曲
I heard he had a style
我听到他风格迥异
And so I came to see him to listen for awhile
我前去一睹其容
And there he was this young boy, a stranger to my eyes
目中只见翩翩陌生少年
Strumming my pain with his fingers
他用指尖拨动我心苦楚
Singing my life with his words
他用言语吟唱我的一生
Killing me softly with his song
他用歌声将我温柔处死
Killing me softly with his song
他用歌声将我温柔处死
Telling my whole life with his words
他用言语道尽我的一生
Killing me softly with his song
他用歌声将我温柔处死
I felt all flushed with fever embarrassed by the crowd
我脸颊潮红羞怯于众
I felt he found my letters and read each word aloud
我听到他大声读出我信中的每字每句
I prayed that he would finish But he just kept right on
我祈祷这一幕尽快结束但他仍在继续
Strumming my pain with his fingers
他用指尖拨动我心苦楚
Singing my life with his words
他用言语吟唱我的一生
Killing me softly with his song
他用歌声将我温柔处死
Killing me softly with his song
他用歌声将我温柔处死
Telling my whole life with his words
他用言语道尽我的一生
Killing me softly with his song
他用歌声将我温柔处死
He sang as if he knew me in all my dark despair
他歌唱 一如懂得我无尽的绝望
And then he looked right through me as if I wasn't there
他洞悉 仿佛我不在场
And he just kept on singing
他兀自吟唱
Singing clear and strong
清晰而响亮
Strumming my pain with his fingers
他用指尖拨动我心苦楚
Singing my life with his words
他用言语吟唱我的一生
Killing me softly with his song
他用歌声将我温柔处死
Killing me softly with his song
他用歌声将我温柔处死
Telling my whole life with his words
他用言语道尽我的一生
Killing me softly with his song
他用歌声将我温柔处死 |