Karen Knowles Vincent Lyrics

Vincent Lyrics

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 of a 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 now

Perhaps they'll listen now.



For they could
not love you

But still your love was true

And when no hope was left
in si-ight 

On that starry, starry night

You-ou 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



And now I think I know 

What you tried to say to-oo 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
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