Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
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
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
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Perhaps they'll listen now
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
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how



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
were
watched 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 now i think i know
what you tried to say
to
to
to me
and 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
you
you
you
you
you
you