G5 A5 Starry, starry night paint your palette blue and gray C5 D5 G5 Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul D5 G5 A5 Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils C5 D5 G5 Catch the breeze and the winter chills in colors on the snowy linen land A5 D5 G5 E5 Now I understand what you tried to say to me A5 And how you suffered for your sanity D5 E5 How you tried to set them free A5 A5 They would not listen, they did not know how D5 G5 Perhaps they'll listen now G5 A5 Starry, starry night flaming flowers that brightly blaze C5 D5 G5 Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue D5 G5 A5 Colors changing hue morning fields of amber grain C5 D5 G5 Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand (Chorus) A5 D5 G5 For they could not love you but still your love was true E5 A5 C5 And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night G5 F5 E5 A5 You took your life as lovers often do but I could have told you, Vincent C5 D5 G5 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 A5 D5 G5 E5 Now I think I know what you tried to say to me A5 And how you suffered for your sanity D5 E5 How you tried to set them free A5 A5 They would not listen, they're not listening still D5 G5 Perhaps they never will...
