G Am
Starry, starry night paint your palette blue and gray
C D7 G
Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
D7 G Am
Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils
C D7 G
Catch the breeze and the winter chills in colors on the snowy linen land
Am D7 G Em
Now I understand what you tried to say to me
Am7
And how you suffered for your sanity
D7 Em
How you tried to set them free
A7 Am7
They would not listen, they did not know how
D7 G
Perhaps they'll listen now
G Am
Starry, starry night flaming flowers that brightly blaze
C D7 G
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
D7 G Am
Colors changing hue morning fields of amber grain
C D7 G
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
(Chorus)
Am7 D7 G
For they could not love you but still your love was true
Em Am7 Cm6
And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night
G F7 E7 Am7
You took your life as lovers often do but I could have told you, Vincent
C D7 G
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 ragged clothes
A silver thorn, a bloody rose lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Am D7 G Em
Now I think I know what you tried to say to me
Am7
And how you suffered for your sanity
D7 Em
How you tried to set them free
A7 Am7
They would not listen, they're not listening still
D7 G
Perhaps they never will...
