Killing me Softly

I know you're wondering about the title. Let me fill you in.

A repeat button
itunes has a feature called party shuffle, and I clicked on it last night. I saw a song that was unchecked (meaning it wouldn't play) scrolling up through the list, and it was Roberta Flack (would know her if I saw her) singing "Killing Me Softly". Well I checked it so that it would play, and remembered seeing it in a movie.

A chick flick
Yes it was a chick flick. I think it was called "about a boy", but I could be wrong. A good looking Brit, (I don't remember his name..Hugh Jackman?) somehow ends up befriending a boy and sings in a talent show with him the song "Killing Me Softly". A kid in the crowd starts heckling them because it's a girl's song. I remembered that as I listened to the weak feminine strain of singing by Roberta Flack.

A mother's song
But it wasn't really Roberta's voice that I heard. It was my mother's. This song played at my sister, Sarah's, wedding. And I heard my mother sing it. Probably only like the end of one verse into the chorus of the song, but it's burned into my mind as the most beautiful song that I ever heard my mother sing. I asked my sister last night if she had ever heard mom sing it. She laughed and said, "Mom? No. But I've sung it for Karaoke." It was written for my mom's kind of voice.

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 know that it's ridiculous, but that's the song in my head and on the repeat button of itunes for me right now. I've downloaded the chords and strummed her pain on my guitar. My office has been converted this morning to an easy listening station.

"This one will take you back, you crazy cats....Debi Rainey singing Killing me softly."

--Ben "the Rain-man" Rainey of wgbtw 1040 am (get back to work)