Starry, starry night

Paint your pallet 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 colors on the snowy linen land



And 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 flow'rs that brightly blaze

Swirling clouds of violet haze

Reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue



And now I understand

What you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free



Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not 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



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 bloody 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 listening still

Perhaps they never will