“How can you kill someone without killing them?” I felt so sorry for every character in KS. I felt sorry for Bum, Sangwoo. Sangwoo because obviously he has a mental illness from his traumatic past, and he became a killer. Poor Bum reminded him of his mom, which is why he let Bum stick around in the first place. It was such a sad story.
I feel you.. i really feel sorry for sangwoo for who he became.. its kinda break my heart. I really wish that sangwoo get the help that he deserve when he was young..
In 1973 I began my teacher training. This song was the background to my studies, played over and over as I read, took notes and wrote essays. It followed me into my career, and now, 46 years later, I'm still listening to it in my retirement....
Philip Meers when I was young I couldn't really understand it ... but now that I'm "ancient" I can really understand what the words mean today & it always makes me cry xx
I was 4, first song I remember, was my intro to music. Played it over and over, a 45, remember learned how to use the turn table baby sitter would tell me in spanish, "ortraves" ... I spoke only spanish.. but, yup play it again
Roberta Flack was grossly underrated. She had an absolutely beautiful voice. This, and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face are two of my all time favorites.
"How can you kill someone without killing them?" R.I.P. Oh Sangwoo😕 Who else is here because Killing, Stalking? :v The seventies was a great time to be young
@@eleybugs Yes I understand what you mean, I also felt like this :( I was so sad that they weren't happy. My heart shatteref and i felt so numb and empty I FEEL YOU :(
An all-time favorite and classic! Nobody does it quite like Roberta Flack did. Beautiful and moving! Takes me back to a better life, when I didn't have to care.
@@garyunderdown4382 THANK YOU I AM A HUGE FAN OF THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN IT'S ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE FILMS I COLLECT ANYTHING ON IT I HAVE A PRETTY EXTENSIVE COLLECTION AND THE MOONLIGHT MURDERS ARE A PRETTY INTERESTING CASE ANYWAYS I'M GLAD YOU LIKE MY ICON I THINK THE PHANTOM KILLER IS EASILY ONE OF THE MOST FRIGHTENING KILLERS EVER SEEN ON FILM
phantom collector I love the movie also. The case is very interesting. I love reading anything about it. Look me up on Facebook...Gary Underdown. I'm wearing a black leather jacket in profile pic.
Has it really been that long? When I close my eyes, and listen, I am 15 again with all the great music coursing through my brain and I am free again! My best friend in high schools name was Kelly, good name!
Yes, Roberta Flack's voice is magical. I like variety in music as well, so I'm sure you could find something you'd enjoy. What other genres do you like? Maybe some jazz or classical?
@@nukleyus4329 no, i don’t think they sang this song. This is the song who was playing in radio in one of the scenes with his mom and at the memorable date with Bum before Christmas. They were dancing to it then...
This song only can be performed by the original artist. Anything else is a waste of time and embarrassment to the music industry. Thank you Ms. Roberta Flack for sharing this song with the world. Love you forever, from a great fan.
This has been one of my favorite songs of the early seventies. Roberta sang it with such feeling one can actually feel the song. and 45 years later it is still very good to hear and enjoy.
Jacki Palmer um are you stupid??? There’s a comic online called “Killing Stalking” and in the comic they mentioned this song so thats why they’re mentioning it.
I returned to the US in 1973 after a year in Uganda, and Roberta Flack's cover of this song was playing everywhere. Her voice held me then, and still does now. Roberta Flack sings it perfectly; you can imagine yourself going to hear a young singer who in his song appears to be singing about your own life! This song remains such a lovely, insightful ballad.
Unfortunately living the pain of this song presently . 26 years of faithful service to a narcissistic personality disordered man, actually more likely an anti-social, which includes the npd dx within in it. I guess waking up at 56 is better than never. Although sometimes I wish he coulda just played me better and longer so I could remained in denial. That's how much of a mindfuck this shit is and soooo very painful.....I gotta get in the shower and get out of my pity party. ....😂😂😂😂
I started reading Killing Stalking yesterday and have finished it today. I have been feeling really depressed and honestly all the hate comments directed towards Sangwoo in each and every chapter SINCE the prologue does not help the amount of anxiety I am feeling right now. The fact that hurt me the most in the end was that when Bum started to hallucinate Sangwoo... I felt his pain and knew that it would hurt more to know that Sangwoo was dead so he just imagined Sangwoo left him for some woman. I don't blame Sangwoo for anything I only blame him for not telling Bum everything, because I strongly believe that it would be totally different if he would've. The one person I blame, hate, resent, despise and loathe is his mother... Screwed up her own son's life till the very fvcking end... and it hurt that her curse came true. He died a horrible death just as he was about to find what real love means 😔😔😔
Sangwoo was straight and homophobic as confirmed by Koogi, so Sangwoo would have never loved Bum for who he was, only for his resemblance to his psychotic mother.
No disrespect, but you really should have added a spoiler warning. Thanks a lot lmao. Just because you finished it doesn't mean others have. In fact, I myself am barely Into chapter 16. I know it wasn't intended but you ruined part of the ending for me.. you should go back, edit, and add a spoiler warning in the beginning of your comment, please. Also btw, I love your pfp and name. unOrdinary has been such a great read so far. And I want to wish you good luck and hope your anxiety gets better. BUT PLEASE REMEMBER SPOILER WARNINGS😭
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 came 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 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 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 came to 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
As a 60 something man, this song brings back memories of a time when love was still a sweet thing. My how life changes . still love the song, and the memories it brings back.
While I'd like to agree, it might be more appropriate to remember Roberta for being a great humanitarian and an educator of young artists and students. I would have her on my Top 10 list of people I'd like to have a nice dinner with, to learn more. I hope we have her around for a very long time....
@@MraDigims100 - Consider this as Pandora's Box. A true Christian is Pandora in the myth and she discovered hope. Greed, entitlement and selfishness destroyed a once great nation. Substitute fire with technology and you will see the decline of mankind when people got selfish. Refer to the term "Solid State electronics". Pure selfishness destroyed mankind. This is where Watergate came into plat. Money talks, bullshit walks destroyed any hope in recovery of redeemable values that could still be recovered by our own government. People can now easily see how pure evil selfishness is. The reason selfishness so evil if they don't put the Lord first or the people who means the most to them. The answer that you are sneaking is lack of caring about anything else but themselves. The other people around you just gets in the way. It was a very dire warning which softly killed off all hope. Where are peoples Loyalties lay is the the eternal question? There are only two choice in life. God or the devil. Selfish people would rather follow the devil. Hope reveals its head at the end of the myth Pandora Box and not everybody is qualified to have what is entitled to the people who it actually belongs to. Even hope is tossed under the bus at the end. Religion is the main problem. It even killed Jesus at the cross. Hope is based on a person's heart. Some people would rather exploit the only hope they would ever have, and thought that they could get away with it. Hope brings a better way, it was too easy to be exploited under somebody else's terms. Look around. Where is the hope? Sold at the highest dollar. This song leaves you with a dire warning. You did it to yourself, America. Selfishness is not a marketing tool. It takes away all hope. Next question - Why was mankind set up for failure over a little hope?
This song became a mega hit seller for Roberta Flack, she sang it live at a Marvin Gaye concert in 1972 & the audience went wild, this was a year before she even recorded & then released it in 1973, Marvin Gaye then advised her saying 'Baby, don't ever do that song again live until you record it.'
This song takes you away to another time when lyrics and a beautiful voice really touched you deep inside. I still feel those deep emotions each time I hear this timeless song. Today's music can't touch this haunting melody.
Amazing that you chose the phrase “touched me deep inside” when this song is written about Don McLean who wrote that very lyric which is central to his all time hit American Pie. I don’t know if it was intentional, if it was - well played! If not - beautiful coincidence!!
There's always a chance of being drafted - and 50/50 chance of going home alive. Usually amputation, severe chloracne or PTSD as souvenirs to give to everyone home. (Don't forget about Kent shooting, oil shock and AIDS, too). But after all, everyone goes through it well, passes their experiences as valuable lessons for us today.
I'm going to defend both. Karen is the best female singer ever. However, the greatest love song ever sang was by Roberta in, "First time ever I saw your face". 😁
@Storm Woods You're right....she WAS no Roberta. Karen was MUCH better. I said that as Black who LOVES Black music. Roberta Flack....I love here dearly.....but.........
Mila Valdez There’s controversy on who wrote the song. But I believe it was written by a young 18 year old singer named Lori Lieberman. Then producers Fox and Gamble asked her to sing it and recorded it as part of a whole album and didn’t give credit to Ms. Lieberman. The man that Lori refers to in this song is Don McLean, the writer of American Pie, as she went to see him perform in a concert in LA. I love Lori’s original version.
I heard this song before reading KS but I’m glad once I read it, it mentioned the song. It’s literally my favorite song and I thank KS for helping me remember it😭😭😭
I was just thirteen years old when this song came out. I was a teen struggling with being an introvert and socially awkward. To say I was a young teen struggling with depression would be true. One thing that I had and enjoyed was a small transistor radio. My family lived one hundred fifty miles from Chicago, home of WLS A.M. radio station. In the day WLS played all the top 40 hits of the day, and I remember one rainy spring Saturday afternoon, sitting in my bedroom, the windows open, and listening to WLS. That day was memorable to me and comes back to me as if it were yesterday. It was this song that burned that into my memory. It lifted me. It helped me to have a somewhat romantic view of the world. Maybe something very needed today. Even now today, as I approach the age of sixty-three, to hear Roberta sing this song brings back the memory and ALL that I was feeling. It's something very powerful and spiritual when a song can do that, and I'm grateful. I survived and grew and learned about love and dedication, and in part because of powerful songs like this one. Thank You so much Roberta.....
It was written by a woman who had just seen Don McLean perform in the club "The troubadour". He had just sung the song "Empty chairs" and she was so touched by that song that she wrote a poem then and there. That was made into this song. I saw it in a documentary about and with Don McLean. What a genius, that man!
that is awesome to kno, I never heard that befor I can see it going down that way a great lyricist can take what they need when they are hitting on all 8 it's a great feeling I sure this fine lady was smiling ear to ear when she picked up a pencil she new the lyric was gonna be a life long thing... it's a great song back in the day all the way to today it would rock Respectfully.....
What a Beautiful voice!!!..I truly love the words of this song. Listen to the words!! Andy Williams was the original.... None the less, the words and meaning are incredible. For those who are wondering, this song was dedicated to Buddy Holly! Don Mcleans song "American Pie" says it all. ... Tutta Italiano!!!!
You don't see much of this any more. Fantastic voice, beautiful backing vocals, superb bassist and drummer and keyboard player. That's why this can't be reproduced any more. You need to have this kind of collective to make the whole. As soon as you click track it, use sampled drums and bass etc. you kill it. This has the freedom for the singer to do what she does best and the musicians are all of the highest standard you could hope for. Beautiful. Listen back and just try to isolate the bass playing, it's sublime.
Fuck yeah I seriously would love to go back too Ben but only if I could have still have my beautiful family great times very lucky we are to have grown up in that period
I’d for one NOT want to go back. Noppers!! Now to 79? Sure for a short visit with my Mom, Gram and my real Dad. All awesome people who I’d LOVE to thank and tell them that to this day I think of them often. Love deeply, express it often. Use forgiveness often.
For me this is the best version of this song, although I have listened many others. I like the feeling Roberta put when singing it making me feel the song. One of my favorites of the early seventies of Last Century.
I would come home from school almost every day, my mom drunk on sangria listening to this, Gladise night, motown on the record console .my father was a dick through and through .i take care of my mother now .she will be 80 June 30th Happy Birthday Mom, I Love You. God Bless You into His Kingdom
@@alicevondahn4343 that was me with banana fish and 10 years that i loved you the most (the didn't get spolied in that manhua but the ending was pretty obvious) i knew what the ending was gonna be and still cried like a baby. but i bet that if i didn't know what would happen in banana fish i would cry more than i would have
Just Wormchild I was the opposite of hyperventilating, I couldn’t even breathe when I was crying. I didn’t read killing stalking on lezhin so before I knew the music was on TH-cam I didn’t have music for when I first read it. I didn’t have my cat for comfort. He abandons me when I need him most ;(
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This has got to be one of the most beautiful songs of all TIME.
And it sure brings back good memories for me.
Written after seeing Don McLean in concert
C'est excessivement énervant d'entendre quelqu'un manger des chips POUR CELUI QUI N'EN MANGE PAS, C'EST COMPRIS ?
Education minimum...
I agree what a beautiful soulful voice she as.
100%
I just come here for the manhwa “Killing stalking” but what a good song 🥺
Ele San YEET a manga/anime fan(tho its a manga lmao)
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The song's name is "Killing Me Softly "!!
Ahh samee
@Александр Александров тож
“How can you kill someone without killing them?”
I felt so sorry for every character in KS. I felt sorry for Bum, Sangwoo. Sangwoo because obviously he has a mental illness from his traumatic past, and he became a killer. Poor Bum reminded him of his mom, which is why he let Bum stick around in the first place. It was such a sad story.
i wish there was some sort of resolution to their illness instead of letting them die
Mitch Conner honestly I think both of them were already too far gone by the middle of the story for there to be any possible fix.
I feel you.. i really feel sorry for sangwoo for who he became.. its kinda break my heart. I really wish that sangwoo get the help that he deserve when he was young..
It's his ( Sangwoo ) mother's fault why he grew up with mentally unstable issues =(
ok im just scorlling trough the replies on this comment and shaking and sobbing,,,,,,,
In 1973 I began my teacher training. This song was the background to my studies, played over and over as I read, took notes and wrote essays. It followed me into my career, and now, 46 years later, I'm still listening to it in my retirement....
This song is from 1973 wow didn't know, still sounds fresh.
Beautiful music transcends time.
Philip Meers when I was young I couldn't really understand it ... but now that I'm "ancient" I can really understand what the words mean today & it always makes me cry xx
I was moved, I wish you much health !!!
I was 4, first song I remember, was my intro to music. Played it over and over, a 45, remember learned how to use the turn table baby sitter would tell me in spanish, "ortraves" ... I spoke only spanish.. but, yup play it again
99% of the comments: killInG sTalkIng
1% of the comments: i just like music-
I confirm.
I came here because I heard this song on a radio station after years and was lost between comments talking about Killing Stalking.
I came here because of killing stalking but I like this song :)
in which episode is this song played?
Accurate. I actually knew the song already, but then I read killing stalking and there it was.
i just like clasic music like satie
Roberta Flack was grossly underrated. She had an absolutely beautiful voice. This, and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face are two of my all time favorites.
No she wasn't. She was on the radio every hour and sold out concerts.
She even receives credit and recognition for her covers instead of the original artists.
One of the best singers ever🎉
"How can you kill someone without killing them?"
R.I.P. Oh Sangwoo😕
Who else is here because Killing, Stalking? :v
The seventies was a great time to be young
Sangwoo deserved happiness and better🥺
Here I go again shedding my tears
Like.... I just finished reading the last chapter ... I feel so empty... like .. it's really all over
@@eleybugs Yes I understand what you mean, I also felt like this :( I was so sad that they weren't happy. My heart shatteref and i felt so numb and empty I FEEL YOU :(
@@eli-na I'm so depressed now lmao
An all-time favorite and classic! Nobody does it quite like Roberta Flack did. Beautiful and moving! Takes me back to a better life, when I didn't have to care.
ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONGS OF ALL TIME
phantom collector I agree; beautiful song.
I like your Phantom pic. I have always been very interested in the Phantom Killer.
@@garyunderdown4382 THANK YOU I AM A HUGE FAN OF THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN IT'S ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE FILMS I COLLECT ANYTHING ON IT I HAVE A PRETTY EXTENSIVE COLLECTION AND THE MOONLIGHT MURDERS ARE A PRETTY INTERESTING CASE ANYWAYS I'M GLAD YOU LIKE MY ICON I THINK THE PHANTOM KILLER IS EASILY ONE OF THE MOST FRIGHTENING KILLERS EVER SEEN ON FILM
phantom collector agree
phantom collector I love the movie also. The case is very interesting. I love reading anything about it. Look me up on Facebook...Gary Underdown. I'm wearing a black leather jacket in profile pic.
Agreed! Another one of Roberta Flacks songs that is one of the best of all time is 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'. ❤ it!
After almost 50 years her music and voice remains hauntingly beautiful. She melts my heart.
1973 she released this wickedly great song
Has it really been that long? When I close my eyes, and listen, I am 15 again with all the great music coursing through my brain and I am free again!
My best friend in high schools name was Kelly, good name!
Kelly Lambert Holy goodness, you are exactly correct. Roberta is the precise Real Deal. I am speechless, really.
some of comments are about killing stalking and im here still depressed..
just be happy :3
I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that comment above me ➖👄➖
@@nayawtf yeah same pfft...
Ern Easy for you to say
Im glad that i already move on
This is such a great song I imagine if killing stalking was a movie it would play at the ending with artistic blood dripping or something
they're making an anime so don't lose hope 👀
Pooja Karan they’re not, they’re making a 3D animation
I prefer this version than the other one.
Gotta admit, I like Roberta Flack's version best. It's so calming and lovely at the same time. I could feel every emotion but this song soothes me.
Hill's is absolute garbage in comparison
I will always be a fan. Aside from wonderful vocals, she draws you in .. passion, depth, smooth...much respect Roberta Flack
Yes, Roberta Flack's voice is magical. I like variety in music as well, so I'm sure you could find something you'd enjoy. What other genres do you like? Maybe some jazz or classical?
Roberta's version is my favorite. What a great song !
It's your fav because it's the best version.
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@@fredgerken8095 hell but dont act like the fugees version wasnt good either. lauryn hill did damn great as well
What a beautiful timeless song of the powerful poetry of the the broken heart...beautiful!😢
When did Sangwoo get good music taste?
If I remember correctly, he sang one time with that girl with a little heart on her face? Forgot her name tho
@@nukleyus4329 no, i don’t think they sang this song. This is the song who was playing in radio in one of the scenes with his mom and at the memorable date with Bum before Christmas. They were dancing to it then...
Sangwoo actually says he hates this song in one of the chapters near the end when he dances with Yoonbum.
Replaying again and again. It helps me remove my stress :) such a sweet voice
Roberta has a voice like A) honey B) silk or C) an angel. Answer is D) all three
Violet Miller D All of Them😘
enchanting... magical!
This song only can be performed by the original artist. Anything else is a waste of time and embarrassment to the music industry. Thank you Ms. Roberta Flack for sharing this song with the world. Love you forever, from a great fan.
actually she was not the first to sing it, but she sure was the first to make it classic.
a classic. Beautiful.
I love this song too babe
such a beautiful voice. It soothes the soul.
Concordo Mary Beth Nausbaum é uma bela voz
+Manu Oliveira and you have such a beautiful eyes
+Manu Oliveira and such a nice ass as well
Yes, it really does. This song is just hauntingly beautiful.
I agree!
pov: you're yeonbum listening to sangwoo playing this song while you're stuck at the basement
Why would anyone want this
Reading this comment makes me want to actually fall down some stairs and get someone to break my ankles
Her voice is like a cloud so soft and beautiful.
This has been one of my favorite songs of the early seventies. Roberta sang it with such feeling one can actually feel the song. and 45 years later it is still very good to hear and enjoy.
Jorge Mario Rodas yes, the very definition of timeless
@@CCHPC Siempre he dicho que es la banda sonora de mi vida
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!! The One and Only One Roberta Flack... Thank you!!
What a song!!! But more importantly; what a voice!!!!!!!
Lyrics!!
the amount of KS fans here is a bit concerning lol
No it isn't. Tf??
I don’t mind them, but the crazies trying to claim this as “ sangwoos song” are weird.
@@Zhongligeoarchon ikr
Whether you came here for the song or Killing Stalking, either way I think we can all agree this a good song.
Go find looking for Mr. Goodbar if you want killing stalking-
へろぼく の strongly agree
I was such a young man when this song came out a got married we felt it !
Jacki Palmer um are you stupid??? There’s a comic online called “Killing Stalking” and in the comic they mentioned this song so thats why they’re mentioning it.
stalking???????
I returned to the US in 1973 after a year in Uganda, and Roberta Flack's cover of this song was playing everywhere. Her voice held me then, and still does now. Roberta Flack sings it perfectly; you can imagine yourself going to hear a young singer who in his song appears to be singing about your own life! This song remains such a lovely, insightful ballad.
There are some songs that never get old...this is one of them. Who of us doesn't know how this feels?
Yes, that song which we relate to so deeply.
… 💝 … PEACE to ALL.
I agree
Unfortunately living the pain of this song presently . 26 years of faithful service to a narcissistic personality disordered man, actually more likely an anti-social, which includes the npd dx within in it. I guess waking up at 56 is better than never. Although sometimes I wish he coulda just played me better and longer so I could remained in denial. That's how much of a mindfuck this shit is and soooo very painful.....I gotta get in the shower and get out of my pity party. ....😂😂😂😂
@@maryannslatteryburrows5789 - thinking of you!
I started reading Killing Stalking yesterday and have finished it today. I have been feeling really depressed and honestly all the hate comments directed towards Sangwoo in each and every chapter SINCE the prologue does not help the amount of anxiety I am feeling right now. The fact that hurt me the most in the end was that when Bum started to hallucinate Sangwoo... I felt his pain and knew that it would hurt more to know that Sangwoo was dead so he just imagined Sangwoo left him for some woman. I don't blame Sangwoo for anything I only blame him for not telling Bum everything, because I strongly believe that it would be totally different if he would've. The one person I blame, hate, resent, despise and loathe is his mother... Screwed up her own son's life till the very fvcking end... and it hurt that her curse came true. He died a horrible death just as he was about to find what real love means 😔😔😔
Same
Sangwoo was straight and homophobic as confirmed by Koogi, so Sangwoo would have never loved Bum for who he was, only for his resemblance to his psychotic mother.
@@brother_sothoth same same!
No disrespect, but you really should have added a spoiler warning. Thanks a lot lmao. Just because you finished it doesn't mean others have. In fact, I myself am barely Into chapter 16. I know it wasn't intended but you ruined part of the ending for me.. you should go back, edit, and add a spoiler warning in the beginning of your comment, please. Also btw, I love your pfp and name. unOrdinary has been such a great read so far. And I want to wish you good luck and hope your anxiety gets better. BUT PLEASE REMEMBER SPOILER WARNINGS😭
Brings back a lot of good memories from the 70's for me.....Love it and miss those good old days!
1969 and my husband and I were newly married and much in love.
Me too
Beautiful song. Takes me way back.
Sangwoo has great music taste
ikr
King Rin Indeed
King Rin Truuue
finest quality
i agreeee
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 came 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 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
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 came to 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
Yes baby😍😍😍😍
Gracias
ThangYou.💚💙💜💛
It’s already a lyric video
❤
A beautiful song, adult, mature, sensitive, thoughtful, so well played and presented...
First 45 I bought in 1973 ish at 8 years old. 46 years ago I loved it. 46 years later, I still love it.
Cool!! 😍
Wow, that record you bought must cost a fortune by now.
hello 1965 !
Do you still have the 45? That would be super keen
respect.
Singers and songwriters original classic, beautiful, wonderful, soulful, never to be duplicated. I LoveThis Song, forever.
Curtis Gilbert Moi' Too!😁
As a 60 something man, this song brings back memories of a time when love was still a sweet thing. My how life changes . still love the song, and the memories it brings back.
jim w So true.....beautiful memories
I'm not so sure this song is really one that portrays love "sweetly."
Robarta Flack will be remembered for ever for this song.
His song.........it's Don Mclean.....
@@agnescruz6042 yes
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I remember her for a few other songs as well.
While I'd like to agree, it might be more appropriate to remember Roberta for being a great humanitarian and an educator of young artists and students. I would have her on my Top 10 list of people I'd like to have a nice dinner with, to learn more. I hope we have her around for a very long time....
Fantastic......Just FANTASTIC!
yep1!!! xD
so beautiful. The song just pulls me up from the dark abyss of depression.
keep it light... Jeees
tieuwest Let the music heal your aches, Roberta would understand
BerryBush shut up you 5 year old and get out of the comment section if you don't have something good to say
how old are you to write things like these?
BerryBush: Come on! Don't be vulgar will you? What a dirty thing to say!
Few singers could even come close, her voice was spiritually, mesmerizing.
THIS SONG IS A CLASSIC!!!
forever!!
Legendary!
This is a tribute to don McClean of American Pie fame
Screw all the stupid comments, this is a great song sung by a lady with a great voice.
Bob Young very nice
Bob Young
Well Said!
What a voice!!!
Dude, learn to avoid the comments. This tune is absolutely epic.
It is
Such a beautiful song. No one covering it can come close to her beautiful voice.
Most beautiful version of this song! Love it! What a wonderful voice! Instruments perfectly balanced
ONE OF THE BEST SONGS IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC!
This song gives me chills whenever I listen to it.
“Killing me softly with his song”...what a great metaphor!
I don't get it. Could you please explain it to me?
Probably, of unrequited love.
Yes, yes, yes!!!
It's Don MaClean
@@MraDigims100 - Consider this as Pandora's Box. A true Christian is Pandora in the myth and she discovered hope. Greed, entitlement and selfishness destroyed a once great nation. Substitute fire with technology and you will see the decline of mankind when people got selfish. Refer to the term "Solid State electronics". Pure selfishness destroyed mankind. This is where Watergate came into plat. Money talks, bullshit walks destroyed any hope in recovery of redeemable values that could still be recovered by our own government. People can now easily see how pure evil selfishness is. The reason selfishness so evil if they don't put the Lord first or the people who means the most to them. The answer that you are sneaking is lack of caring about anything else but themselves. The other people around you just gets in the way. It was a very dire warning which softly killed off all hope.
Where are peoples Loyalties lay is the the eternal question? There are only two choice in life. God or the devil. Selfish people would rather follow the devil. Hope reveals its head at the end of the myth Pandora Box and not everybody is qualified to have what is entitled to the people who it actually belongs to. Even hope is tossed under the bus at the end. Religion is the main problem. It even killed Jesus at the cross. Hope is based on a person's heart. Some people would rather exploit the only hope they would ever have, and thought that they could get away with it. Hope brings a better way, it was too easy to be exploited under somebody else's terms. Look around. Where is the hope? Sold at the highest dollar.
This song leaves you with a dire warning. You did it to yourself, America. Selfishness is not a marketing tool. It takes away all hope.
Next question - Why was mankind set up for failure over a little hope?
This song became a mega hit seller for Roberta Flack, she sang it live at a Marvin Gaye concert in 1972 & the audience went wild, this was a year before she even recorded & then released it in 1973, Marvin Gaye then advised her saying 'Baby, don't ever do that song again live until you record it.'
Nice one Marvin Gaye knew a classic when he heard it
How do you know then?
I love your story about this song. Thanks so much for sharing this with us on TH-cam. :)
Cool story enjoy life :-)
@artdekokcj Thankyou
Roberta's version is my favorite. What a great song !
When music was really music.
Give a like still listening to this beautiful queen in 2020
This song takes you away to another time when lyrics and a beautiful voice really touched you deep inside. I still feel those deep emotions each time I hear this timeless song. Today's music can't touch this haunting melody.
Amazing that you chose the phrase “touched me deep inside” when this song is written about Don McLean who wrote that very lyric which is central to his all time hit American Pie. I don’t know if it was intentional, if it was - well played! If not - beautiful coincidence!!
The seventies was a great time to be young
There's always a chance of being drafted - and 50/50 chance of going home alive. Usually amputation, severe chloracne or PTSD as souvenirs to give to everyone home. (Don't forget about Kent shooting, oil shock and AIDS, too). But after all, everyone goes through it well, passes their experiences as valuable lessons for us today.
Yes it was. I grew up in the 70's. It was a great decade musically. Roberta's songs stirs so many fond memories. She has such an angelic voice.
The 60s were far better.
The best decade!
Im still in the 70s every day.
One of the most beautiful female voices of all time along with Karen Carpenter
yes W nW Their music are food for our soul.
I LOVE Roberta....but she was NO Karen Carpenter❤❤❤❤
I'm going to defend both. Karen is the best female singer ever. However, the greatest love song ever sang was by Roberta in, "First time ever I saw your face". 😁
@Storm Woods You're right....she WAS no Roberta. Karen was MUCH better. I said that as Black who LOVES Black music. Roberta Flack....I love here dearly.....but.........
... and Linda Ronstadt !
can't imagine how inspired the composer of this song was. very impressive and so beautifully arranged. luv it and is on my daily playlist.
Mila Valdez There’s controversy on who wrote the song. But I believe it was written by a young 18 year old singer named Lori Lieberman. Then producers Fox and Gamble asked her to sing it and recorded it as part of a whole album and didn’t give credit to Ms. Lieberman. The man that Lori refers to in this song is Don McLean, the writer of American Pie, as she went to see him perform in a concert in LA. I love Lori’s original version.
Is there anyone here who's here just because they have good taste in music ?
chachoumou me
Oh yeah !!!!
yep Joss Stone brought me here
Eh yeah timeless classic
yup
God, this brings back memories. I lost my innocence to this song and Ann Murray's "Danny's Song".
This song is part of me...I never get bored of it...what a beautiful song!!! Thanks God for talents like Roberta Flack ...
Hello...I agree, this song is really beautiful. What other types of music do you enjoy?
Another beautiful song from Roberta Flack how timeless is this song.
I heard this song before reading KS but I’m glad once I read it, it mentioned the song. It’s literally my favorite song and I thank KS for helping me remember it😭😭😭
Same 💖
Roberta , what a beautiful voice , one of my favorites of all time , Thank You for your beautiful music !
I was just thirteen years old when this song came out. I was a teen struggling with being an introvert and socially awkward. To say I was a young teen struggling with depression would be true. One thing that I had and enjoyed was a small transistor radio. My family lived one hundred fifty miles from Chicago, home of WLS A.M. radio station. In the day WLS played all the top 40 hits of the day, and I remember one rainy spring Saturday afternoon, sitting in my bedroom, the windows open, and listening to WLS.
That day was memorable to me and comes back to me as if it were yesterday. It was this song that burned that into my memory. It lifted me. It helped me to have a somewhat romantic view of the world. Maybe something very needed today. Even now today, as I approach the age of sixty-three, to hear Roberta sing this song brings back the memory and ALL that I was feeling. It's something very powerful and spiritual when a song can do that, and I'm grateful. I survived and grew and learned about love and dedication, and in part because of powerful songs like this one.
Thank You so much Roberta.....
I covered up my ankles real quick
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You better 😙
It was written by a woman who had just seen Don McLean perform in the club "The troubadour". He had just sung the song "Empty chairs" and she was so touched by that song that she wrote a poem then and there. That was made into this song. I saw it in a documentary about and with Don McLean. What a genius, that man!
Music by Charles Fox, lyrics by Norman Gimbel. But as you say maybe inspired by this woman's poem. It is about Don McLean.
that is awesome to kno, I never heard that befor I can see it going down that way a great lyricist can take what they need when they are hitting on all 8 it's a great feeling I sure this fine lady was smiling ear to ear when she picked up a pencil she new the lyric was gonna be a life long thing... it's a great song
back in the day all the way to today it would rock Respectfully.....
Lori Lieberman
I heard the same, it was written about seeing Don McLean, I always wanted to meet him when we lived in Maine, never had the chance to.
It was on the radio some while back as well... they do a programme and analyse a song it's called Soul Music.. (this is in the UK)
This is one of those songs from the 70s that bring back great memories of your life then. I certainly have a few.
Waited in a pouring rain at Milwaukee Summerfest, mid 70's to see this Queen. Worth every cold wet raindrop.
What a beautiful song, our song Marigel. How much love... Sweet 70s, thank you Roberta!!
it doesn't get any better than this beautiful lady and this beautiful song
absolutely
Except that Lieberman's original version does. And way better.
Always love to hear Roberta sing this song with her distinctive rich sound.
Yes, her voice is absolutely mesmerizing!
まさに後世に残すべき名曲!心にしみ入る。
Just written for me! I cry listening to this, it's gets me out of depression! Lovely
If you wanna go back to depression, listen to the original version by Lori Lieberman. So much better than this one, and so sad.
What a Beautiful voice!!!..I truly love the words of this song. Listen to the words!! Andy Williams was the original.... None the less, the words and meaning are incredible. For those who are wondering, this song was dedicated to Buddy Holly! Don Mcleans song "American Pie" says it all. ... Tutta Italiano!!!!
100% correct
I'd love to have a time machine just to go back in time to see all these great groups in concert.
Nobody does it better than Roberta. She owns this song!!
My great nan knows this song from when she was a little younger.
She sings it and she says it's a very powerful song.
I play it for her
I came here because I love this song.
I came here to listen if her version is comparable to the version of 12 years old Angelina "cute" Jordan of Norway.
Listen to Lori Lieberman's' version, the woman who wrote it but didn't believe that it was good enough hence this great version by Roberta Flack
Good Roberta Flak de las mejores, las iglesias en E U A
Mayor mente las cantantes de color aprendían dé la música de las iglesias, tiene un nombre pero no me acuerdo. Ejemplo: Areta Franklin etc,etc ,
+Cesareo Fernadez Rodriquez gospel
It's 2019 and I'm still here. Such a beautiful song, soulful voice, just perfect.
You don't see much of this any more. Fantastic voice, beautiful backing vocals, superb bassist and drummer and keyboard player. That's why this can't be reproduced any more. You need to have this kind of collective to make the whole. As soon as you click track it, use sampled drums and bass etc. you kill it. This has the freedom for the singer to do what she does best and the musicians are all of the highest standard you could hope for. Beautiful. Listen back and just try to isolate the bass playing, it's sublime.
Just finished reading killing stalking and I literally cry when this song start 😭. Sangwoo-ssi!!!
listening to 1973 playlist..damn I wanna go back to 1973..time machine back to the early 70s.
Fuck yeah I seriously would love to go back too Ben but only if I could have still have my beautiful family great times very lucky we are to have grown up in that period
I’d for one NOT want to go back. Noppers!! Now to 79? Sure for a short visit with my Mom, Gram and my real Dad. All awesome people who I’d LOVE to thank and tell them that to this day I think of them often. Love deeply, express it often. Use forgiveness often.
Ben Rayonez Auburn University Dorm J
Ben Rayonez I'm right with ya, man🌾
Ben Rayonez. me too...a different place and time...miss it...
Just smooth is the only way to describe her. Love you forever Roberta!
Ah the 70s and 80s. A brilliant time to be alive. I wish I lived in these 2 decades❤️
I have never ever heard such a smooth voice.
Well done . It's a classic. WELL DONE !
Gorgeous song.. gorgeous voice.. Roberta Flack was born to sing that song.
This was the answer to american pie by don mc clean
2019 my blessed God.A voice from heaven and a song from heaven .Thank you.
Wow. Down Memory Lane. Thanks
man i can honeslty remember hearing this song in the backseat back in the 70s and i was about 4 years old and we just moved to dallas.
Sweet memories ..🙂
Anyone in 2019 listening to this 70's masterpiece ?
yes
A beautiful song...classic.
Memories.
yes. Dwight Caulfield, I think I love you.
It's 2019?
The 60-70s 80 was sure a fantastic TIMES
For me this is the best version of this song, although I have listened many others. I like the feeling Roberta put when singing it making me feel the song. One of my favorites of the early seventies of Last Century.
Unendlich viel gehört, und es gibt kein Ende.🎙
"How can you kill someone without killing them?"
R.I.P. Oh Sangwoo😕
Very sad story
Yikes that comment hurt my heart
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Insulin?
I would come home from school almost every day, my mom drunk on sangria listening to this, Gladise night, motown on the record console .my father was a dick through and through .i take care of my mother now .she will be 80 June 30th Happy Birthday Mom, I Love You. God Bless You into His Kingdom
a beautiful voice from a beautiful woman.
2023 still sounds good to me 💕
YALL NEED TO STOP WITH SPOLIERS IM GONNA PASS OUT
You shouldn't have read the comments!! 😭 Sorry you had to have spoilers though..
@@nuts7058 aww its okay!! dw, fellow human :D
Zoya xox man I’m not human ima Phoenix ☺️☺️☺️
@@alicevondahn4343 that was me with banana fish and 10 years that i loved you the most (the didn't get spolied in that manhua but the ending was pretty obvious) i knew what the ending was gonna be and still cried like a baby. but i bet that if i didn't know what would happen in banana fish i would cry more than i would have
Just Wormchild I was the opposite of hyperventilating, I couldn’t even breathe when I was crying. I didn’t read killing stalking on lezhin so before I knew the music was on TH-cam I didn’t have music for when I first read it. I didn’t have my cat for comfort. He abandons me when I need him most ;(
What can I say? It's one of the best songs ever! I never get tired of it!
Yes, it's definitely one of the best songs ever! It's timeless and so beautiful.
Released my senior year of high school back in 1973 and was the number 1 hit in the USA.
すばらしい歌声！そして良いメロディー！
A splendid singing voice! And a melody good！