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He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) may not have seen "Liliom", it is possible that they were familiar with the successful 1956 film version of "Carousel", which contains essentially the same line. However, King has stated that their friend who inspired the song had used that exact phrase. Carole King, in that same radio interview, said that she was sorry she had ever had anything to do with the song. She was a survivor of repeated domestic abuse (but not from Goffin, who had been her husband from 1959 to 1969). He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) "He Hit Me (And It Felt