From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hplabsc!douglas
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.music
Title: strumming my pain
Article-I.D.: hplabsc.1146
Posted: Tue May  3 14:21:36 1983
Received: Thu May  5 03:58:56 1983
References: uw-beave.532

The lyrics in "Killing my softly with his song" is
"Strumming my pain with his fingers, .."
Which I found pretty easy to understand from the content
of the song.