Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the
darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
Chorus
Now I understand what
you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen,
they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Verse 2
Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue, morning
fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the
artist's loving hand
Now I understand what
you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen,
they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night
You took your life, as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you
Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the
world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in the ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken
on the virgin snow
Now I think I know what
you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen,
they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
