Starry, starry night

Paint your palette blue and gray

Look out on a summer day

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hill

Sketch the trees and daffodils

Catch the breeze and 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

How you tried to set them free

They would not listen

They did not know how

Perhaps they'll listen now



Starry, starry night

Portraits hung in empty halls

Frameless heads on nameless walls

With eyes that watch the world

And can't forget like strangers

That you've met

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

How you suffered for your sanity

And you tried to set them free:

They would not listen

They're not listening still

Perhaps they never will

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've told you, Vincent

This world was never meant for one

As beautiful as you.