Starry starry night Paint your palette blue and grey Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the dark in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and colour on the snowy linen land Now I understand what you try to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free They would not listen they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now Starry starry night Plaming flowers that brightly blaze Swirling clouds in 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 For they could not love you But still you love was true And when no hope was left inside 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 heads on maneless walls With eyes that watch the world And can't forget like the strangers That you've met The ragged men in ragged clothes The silver throne the bloody rose Like crushed and broken on the virgin snow Now I think I know what you try to say to me And 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 Paint your palette blue and grey Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the dark in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and colour on the snowy linen land Now I understand what you try to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free They would not listen they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now Starry starry night Plaming flowers that brightly blaze Swirling clouds in 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 For they could not love you But still you love was true And when no hope was left inside 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 heads on maneless walls With eyes that watch the world And can't forget like the strangers That you've met The ragged men in ragged clothes The silver throne the bloody rose Like crushed and broken on the virgin snow Now I think I know what you try to say to me And 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
