Soft Kill

 

According to Lori Lieberman (singer / song writer)

“behind this song was a story of a young female musician struggling to find the space where both her voice as well as her ideas would be respected and not expropriated whenever it best suited the purposes of the others.” 

Soft Kill

You steal me bit by bit

Killing me softly like

Lieberman said

She said it best

this thing that you do

Murder is murder 

Soft or not

I’m still dying 

because of you

All those love words 

You laid on me

All those touches

 My body yielded to

When all the time

it’s you, exploiting me

I need you, I need you,

I want you real

I give it away 

So you’ll feed me

Feed me still.

Ellecee

Day 25  - NaPoWriMo 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Musical Inspirations

Today: Killing Me Softly - Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel, Lori Lieberman