G                        Am 
Starry, starry night paint your palette blue and gray  
              C                 D7                                G 
Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul  
D7             G                              Am 
Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils  
                         C             D7                           G 
Catch the breeze and the winter chills in colors on the snowy linen land  
 

      Am         D7                G     Em  
Now I understand what you tried to say to me  
                            Am7   
And how you suffered for your sanity  
D7                        Em 
How you tried to set them free  
A7                     Am7   
They would not listen, they did not know how  
D7                     G 
Perhaps they'll listen now    
               G                          Am 
Starry, starry night flaming flowers that brightly blaze  
                   C           D7                                 G 
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue  
D7              G                           Am 
Colors changing hue morning fields of amber grain  
                         C    D7                                      G 
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand  
 
(Chorus)  
                   Am7      D7                      G   
For they could not love you but still your love was true  
Em                                       Am7            Cm6  
And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night  
    G                 F7              E7                         Am7  
You took your life as lovers often do but I could have told you, Vincent  
C                          D7                      G  
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  

A silver thorn, a bloody rose lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow  
 

      Am           D7                G      Em  
Now I think I know what you tried to say to me  
                           Am7   
And how you suffered for your sanity  
D7                        Em 
How you tried to set them free 
A7                     Am7   
They would not listen, they're not listening still  
D7                 G 
Perhaps they never will...