1. Starry, starry night, paint your palette blue and grey,

2. Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze

3. Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls

Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Swirling clouds in violet haze re - flect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can't for - get

Shadows on the hills sketch the trees and the daffodils

Colors changing hue morning fields of amber grain

Like the strangers that you've met the ragged men in ragged clothes

Catch the breeze and the winter chills in colors on the snowy linen land

Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hands

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

CHORUS:

Now I under - stand what you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity and how you tried to set them free

They would not listen they did not know how Per - haps they'll listen now

BRIDGE AFTER SECOND CHORUS:

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 you life as lovers often do But I could have told you, Vincent

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

CHORUS AFTER THIRD VERSE:

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, per - haps they never will