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...
