Don Mclean Vincent (starry Starry Night) Lyrics

Vincent (starry Starry Night) Lyrics

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
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

Chorus:
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're not
listening still
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

Chorus:
For they could not
love you
But still your 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 nameless 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 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 did not
listen they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will