《Killing Me Softly with His Song》，中文名《一曲消魂》，此歌曾獲第16屆格萊美音樂獎，年度最佳唱片獎（ Roberta Flack《Killing Me Softly With His Song》），最佳流行女藝人獎（ Roberta Flack《Killing Me Softly With His Song》），年度最佳歌曲獎（ Roberta Flack《Killing Me Softly With His Song ）。
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 come 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 I flushed with fever,
Embarrassed by the crowd.
I felt he found my letters
And read each one out loud.
I loved 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.
And he just kept on 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 my pain,
He『s singing my life,
La, La, La...
Killing me softly with his song.
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.
1971年，美國民謠女歌手Lori Lieberman在一次偶然的機緣下，去聽了當時還並不見傳的另一位民謠歌手Don Mclean的現場演唱。Lori Lieberman被Don的一首歌「Empty chair」深深地打動了，她隨後寫下詩歌「Killing me softly with his blues」。
這首詩後來被Charles Fox和Norman Gimbel創作成了歌曲「Killing me softly with his song」,並由Lori Lieberman親自演唱。但真正讓這首歌走紅的是美國老牌黑人女歌手Roberta Flack，1973年，Flack憑借「Killing me softly with his song」獲得了格萊美三項大獎。
Roberta Flack的曲風帶有流行色彩的「輕柔爵士」，嗓音厚實，略帶沙啞，高亢嘹亮，中氣十足，同時也蘊藏多變的真假聲技巧。現在，Roberta Flack雖然隱退歌壇，但像Madonna、Whitney Houston等後生巨星，均曾拜她為師。她也會應邀偶然出現在白宮，為總統以及國賓表演。
发表于 2007-9-23 06:30:15
