[Verse 1]
G C G
Starry, starry night,
G
paint your palette
Am
Blue and grey,
Am C
Look out on a summer's day,
D G
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
G C G
Shadows on the hills,
G Am
Sketch the trees and the daffodills
Am C
Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in
D G C G
colors on the snowy linen land
[Chorus]
G Am D
Now I under stand
G D Em
what you tried to say to me
Em Am D
and how you suffered for your sanity
Em
How you tried to set them free,
Em Am D
they would not listen, they did not know how,
G
Perhaps they'll listen now
[Verse 2]
G C G
Starry, starry night,
G Am
portraits hung in empty halls
Am C
framless heads on nameless walls
D G
with eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
G
Like the strangers that you’ve met
G Am
The ragged men in ragged clothes
Am C
A silver thorn, a bloody rose, lie
D D G
Crushed and broken on the virgin snow
G Am D
And now I think I know,
D G D Em
what you tried to say to me,
Em Am D
how you suffered for your sanity
D Em
How you tried to set them free,
Em C
They would not listen, they’re not listening still,
D G
Perhaps the never....will
[Bridge]
Em Am D
For they could not love you,
D G D Em
but still your love was true
Em Am
And when no hope was left in sight
C
On that starry, starry night, you
G Am E
took your life as lovers often do
Am C
But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was
C D G C G
Never meant for one as beautiful as you