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F                   F9
Starry, starry night
F                   Gm7
Paint your palette blue and gray
                 Bb
Look out on a summer's day
C7(4)       C7                          F
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
                     F9
Shadows on the hills
F                          Gm7
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
                           Bb
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
     C7(4)    C7              F
In colors on the snowy linen land
             Gm7  C7
Now I understand
                          F  C
What you tried to say to me
Dm                          Gm7
How you suffered for your sanity
          C                Dm
How you tried to set them free
                G               Gm7
They would not listen they did not know how
  C7                    F  Bb  C7  F
Perhaps they'll listen now
  F                  F9
Starry, starry night
 F                             Gm7
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
                            Bb
Swirling clouds in violet haze
 C7(4)      C7                      F
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
                    F9
Colors changing hue
                          Gm7
Morning fields of amber grain
                          Bb
Weathered faces lined in pain
      C7(4)      C7                       F
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
             Gm7  C7
Now I understand
                          F  C
What you tried to say to me
Dm                           Gm7
How you suffered for your sanity
 C                         Dm
How you tried to set them free
                 G                 Gm7
They would not listen, they did not know how
 C7                     F
Perhaps they'll listen now
                         Gm  C7
For they could not love you
                          F
But still your love was true
  C          Dm       Gm7
And when no hope was left inside
         Bbm
On that starry, starry night
F              C                 D7(4)  D7
You took your life as lovers often do
Gm7
But I could have told you Vincent
      Bb                                  C7        F  Bb  C7
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
F                   F9
Starry, starry night
F                         Gm7
Portraits hung in empty halls
                              Bb
Frameless heads on nameless walls
     C7(4)       C7                        F
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
           C7                   F
Like the strangers that you've met
                             Gm7
The ragged men in ragged clothes
                            Bb
The silver thorn of bloody rose
      C7(4)       C7                   F
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
                Gm7  C7
Now I think I know
                         F
What you tried to say to me
 C        Dm                Gm7
How you suffered for your sanity
          C                Dm
How you tried to set them free
               G                           Gm7
They did not listen, they're not listening still
C7                   F
Perhaps they never will