Starry
Starry night
Paint your palette blue and greyLook out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the
Darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodilsCatch the breeze and the winter chillsIn colors on the snowy linen land.
And now I understand what you tried to say to meHow you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
They did not know howPerhaps they'll listen now.Starry
Starry night
Flaming flo'rs that brightly blazeSwirling clouds in violet haze reflect in
Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grainWeathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's
Loving hand.
And now I understand what you tried to say to meHow you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free.
Perhaps they'll listen now.For they could not love you
But still your love was trueAnd when no hope was left in sight 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.Starry
Starry night
Portraits hung in empty hallsFrameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes
That watch the world and can't forget.
Like the stranger that you've metThe ragged men in ragged clothesThe silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken
On the virgin snow.
And now I think I know what you tried to say to meHow you suffered for your sanityHow you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
They're not
List'ning still
Perhaps they never will.
Songwriters
MCLEAN, DONPublished by
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group