Starry, starry [G] night, paint your pallet [Am] blue and grey Look out on a [C] summers day, With [D7] eyes that know the darkness in my [G] soul Shadows on the [G] hills, sketch the trees and the daffo [Am] dils And catch the breeze and [C] winter chills In [D7] colors on the snowy linen [G] land [C] [G] Now I under [Am] stand, what you [D7] tried to [G] say to [Em] me How you suffered for your [Am7] sanity How you [D7] tried to set them [Em] free They would not listen, they [A7] did not know [Am7] how Per [D7] haps theyll listen [G] now Starry, starry [G] night, flaming flowers that [Am] brightly blaze Swirling [C] colors of violet haze Re [D7] flect in Vincents eyes of china [G] blue Colors changing [G] hue, morning fields of amber [Am] grain Weathered [C] faces lined in pain Are [D7] soothed beneath the artists loving [G] hand [C] [G] Now I under [Am] stand, . what you [D7] tried to [G] say to [Em] me How you suffered for your [Am7] sanity How you [D7] tried to set them [Em] free They would not listen, they [A7] did not know [Am7] how Per [D7] haps theyll listen [G] now For they could not [Am7] love you, but [D7] still your love was [G] true And [Em] when no hope was [Am7] left in sight on that [Cm6] starry, starry night You [G] took your life as [F7] lovers often [E7] do I [Am7] could have told you Vincent, This [C] world was never meant for one as [D7] beautiful as [G] you Starry, starry [G] night, portraits hung in [Am] empty halls Frameless heads on [C] nameless walls With [D7] eyes that watch the world and cant [G] forget Like the stranger that youve [G] met, the ragged man in [Am] ragged clothes The silver thorn of [C] bloody rose Lies [D7] crushed and broken on the virgin [G] snow [C] [G] Now I [Am] think I know, [D7] what you try to [G] say to [Em] me How you suffered for your [Am7] sanity How you [D7] tried to set them [Em] free They would not [A7] listen, theyre not listening [Am7] still Per [D7] haps they never [G] will |