Vincent Starry Starry Night

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Starry starry night, paint your 
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palette blue and gray,
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look out on a summer's day
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with eyes that know the darkness in
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 my soul.

[Verse 2]
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Shadows on the hills, sketch the 
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trees and the daffodils,
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catch the breeze and the winter 
chills
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in colors on the snowy linen land.

[Chorus]
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Now I understand   what you tried 
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to say to me,
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how you suffered for your sanity,
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how you tried to set them free.
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They would not listen they did not 
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know how.
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perhaps they'll listen now .

[Verse 3]
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Starry starry night, flaming 
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flowers that brightly blaze,
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swirling clouds in violet haze
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reflect in Vincent's eyes of china 
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blue.

[Verse 4]
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Colors changing hue, morning fields
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 of amber grain,
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weathered faces lined in pain
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are soothed beneath the artist's 
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loving hand.

[Chorus]
            Em   A                
Now I understand   what you tried 
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to say to me,
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how you suffered for your sanity,
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how you tried to set them free.
                               Em  
They would not listen they did not 
          A
know how.
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perhaps they'll listen now.

[Bridge]
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For they could not love you,    
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but still your love was true,
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and when no hope was left inside on
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 that starry starry night
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you took your life as lovers often 
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do,
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but I could have told you Vincent,
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this world was never meant for one 
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as beautiful as you.

[Verse 5]
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Starry starry night, portraits hung
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 in empty halls,
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frameless heads on nameless walls
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with eyes that watch the world and 
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can't forget.

[Verse 6]
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Like the strangers that you've met,
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 the ragged men in ragged clothes,
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the silver thorn of bloody rose
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lie crushed and broken on the 
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virgin snow.

[Other]
              Em   A              
Now I think I know    what you 
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tried to say to me,
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how you suffered for your sanity, 
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  how you tried to set them free.
They did not listen, they're not 
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listening still, perhaps they never 
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will.