Starry, starry
night
Starry, starry night
Paint your
palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the
darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and daffodils
Catch the breeze and winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you
suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would
not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry,
starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in
violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are
soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Now I understand
What you
tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried
to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps
they'll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was
true
And when your hope was left inside
On that starry, starry
night
You 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