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  • Starry, starry night

  • Paint your palette blue and grey

  • Look out on a summer's day

  • With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

  • Shadows on the hills

  • Sketch the trees and the daffodils

  • Catch the breeze and the winter chills

  • In colors on the snowy linen land.

  • Now I understand

  • 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 did not know how

  • Perhaps they'll listen now

  • Starry, starry night

  • Flaming flowers that brightly blaze

  • Swirling clouds in violet haze

  • Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

  • Colors changing hue

  • morning fields 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

  • How you suffered for your sanity

  • How you tried to set them free

  • They would not listen

  • they did not know how

  • Perhaps they'll listen now

  • 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 your life, as lovers often do

  • But I could have told you, Vincent

  • This world was never meant for one

  • As beautiful as you

  • Starry, starry night

  • Portraits hung in empty halls

  • Frameless head on nameless walls

  • With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

  • Like the strangers that you've met

  • The ragged men in the ragged clothes

  • The silver thorn of bloody rose

  • Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

  • 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

  • Perhaps they never will...

Starry, starry night

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