Vincent - Don Mclean

[G] Starry starry night [G] [C G]
paint your palette [Am] blue and grey
look out on a [C] summer's day
with [D] eyes that know the
darkness in my [G] soul

[C]Shadows on the [G]hills [G] [C G]
sketch the trees and the [Am] daffodils
catch the breeze and [C] the winter chills
in [D] colors on the snowy linen [G] land

And now I under[Am]stand [D] what you tried to [G] say [G/F#] to me [Em]
how you suffered for your [Am] sanity [D]
how you tried to set them [Em] free
They would not listen
they did [Am] not know how [D]
perhaps they'll listen [G]now

Starry starry night
flaming flo'rs 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.

And now I under[Am]stand [D] what you tried to [G] say [G/F#] to me [Em]
how you suffered for your [Am] sanity [D]
how you tried to set them [Em] free
They would not listen
they did [Am] not know how [D]
perhaps they'll listen [G]now

For they could not [Am]love you
[D] but still your love was [G]true [G/F#] [E]
and when no [Am] hope was left inside
on that [Cm] starry starry night.
You [G] took your life as [G/F#] lovers often do [E]
But I [Am] could have told you Vincent
this [C] world was never meant for one
as [D] beautiful as you [G]

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 stranger that you've met
the ragged men in ragged clothes
the silver thorn of bloddy rose
lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

And 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 list'ning still
perhaps they never will.

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