Starry starry night
Paint your pallet blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hill
Sketch the trees and daffodils
Catch the breeze and winter chills in colors on the snowy linen land
Now I understand what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They wouldn't listen
They did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry starry night
Flamin' flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue
Colors changing hue
Mornings field of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Now I understand what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free they wouldn't listen
They did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
For they could not love you but still your love is true
And when no hope would left it inside on that
Starry starry night you took your life as lover's often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never met for one as beautiful as you
Starry starry night
Portrait's hung in empty halls
Flameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged man in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Like crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think
I know what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They wouldn't listen
They're not listening still
Perhaps they never will