GGsus4GAm
Starry, starry night, paint your palette blue and grey
CDG
Look out on a summer's day, with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
GGsus4GAm
Shadows on the hills, Sketch the trees and daffodils
CDG
Catch the breeze and winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land
[Chorus]
AmDGG/F#Em
And now I understand what you tried to say to me,
AmDEm
How you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free,
AAmDG
They would not listen, they did not know how, perhaps they'll listen now
[Verse 2]
GGsus4GAm
Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
CDG
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflecting Vincent's eyes of china blue
GGsus4GAm
Colors changing hue, Morning fields of amber grain
CDG
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
[Chorus]
AmDGG/F#Em
And now I understand what you tried to say to me,
AmDEm
How you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free,
AAmDG
They would not listen, they did not know how, perhaps they'll listen now
[Bridge]
AmDGG/F#Em
For they could not love you, but still your love was true
AmCm
And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night,
GFE7
You took your life as lovers often do
AmC
But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was
DG
Never meant for one as beautiful as you
[Verse 3]
GGsus4GAm
Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls,
CDG
Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can't forget
GGsus4GAm
Like the strangers that you've met The ragged men in ragged clothes
CDG
The silver thorn of bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
[Chorus]
AmDGG/F#Em
And now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
AmDEm
How you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free,
AAmDG
They would not listen, they're not listening still, perhaps they never will