VINTAGE LUTHER VANDROSS – LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL
A niece, apparently, likes the late Luther Vandross version of a Roberta Flack song.
Here’s a live moment from the Royal Albert Hall one year. No one crooned velvet soul like Mr Luther Vandross. He was da voice.
Peace.
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All right… this one going up for New York City… East Coast USA especially… and those whose hearts need easing with a maestro’s touch.
Some lyrics:
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
Embarassed 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 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
[Break]
[Break]
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
He was strumming my pain Yeah,
he was singing my life
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.
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Well… there you have it. American vintage Vandross. Keep warm. :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.10.12~
