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 colours on the snowy linen land
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
Starry starry night
Flaming flowers that
brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes
of China blue
Colours changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are sooth beneath
the artist's loving hand
Oh 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 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
Oh 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
The silver thorn of a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken
on the virgin snow
Now I think I know
Oh 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