Starry, starry night

Paint your palette blue and grey

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 of a 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 now

Perhaps they'll listen now.



For they could not love you

But still your love was true

And when no hope was left in si-ight

On that starry, starry night

You-ou 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 watch the world and can't forget

Like the strangers that you've met

The ragged men in ragged clothes

The silver thorn of bloody rose

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow



And now I think I know

What you tried to say to-oo 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 ...