Sender: news@lugb.latrobe.edu.au (USENET News System) Vincent Don Mc Lean Starry Starry G Am night paint your pallete blue and grey C D7 G Look out on a summers day with eyes tha know the darkness in my soul Am Shadows on hills sketch the tress and daffodils C D7 G Catch the breeze and the winter chill In colors on the snowy linen land chorus C G Am D7 G Em And now I understand what you tried to say to me Am7 D7 Em How you suffered for you sanity How you tried to set them free A7 Am7 D7 G They would not listen the did not know how perhaps they 'll listen now Starry starry nite flamings flowr's that brightly blaze Swirling coulds in violet haze reflect in VIncents eyes of china blue Colors changing hue,morning fields of amber graing Weatherd faces lined inpain Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand chorus G Am7 D7 G {listen now} For the could not love you but still your love was true Em Am7 Cm6 And when no hope was left in sight on that starry starry nite G F7 E7 Am7 You took you life as lovers often do But I could of told you Vinvent C D7 G This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you Starry starry nite portraits hung in empty halls frameless heads on nameless walls with i's that watch the world and cant forget Like the strangers that youve met,the ragged men in ragged clothes The silver thorn the bloody rose Lire crushed and broken on the virgin snow chorous C G Am D7 G Em And now I understand what you tried to say to me Am7 D7 Em How you suffered for you sanity How you tried to set them free A7 Am7 D7 They would not listen theyre not listening still perhaps they never will