V1

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 daffodils,

Catch the breeze and the winter chill

In colors on the snowy linen land.



Chorus

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.

Perhaps theyll listen now.



V2

Starry, starry night

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze

Swirling cloud and violet haze

Reflect in Vincents eyes of China blue.

Colors changing hue.

Mourning fields of amber grain

Weathered faces lined in pain

Are soothed beneath the artists loving hands.



Chorus

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

Perhaps theyll listen now.



V3

For they could not love you

But still your love was true.

And when no hope was left inside

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.



V4

Like the strangers that youve met,

The ragged men in ragged clothes.

The silver thorn, a bloody rose

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

Now I think I know 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.

Theyre not listening still

Perhaps they never will.