Vincent

[Intro]

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...

[Verse 1]

Shadows on the hills

Sketch the trees and the daffodils

Catch the breeze and winter chills

In colors on the snowy linen land

[Chorus]

Now I understand

What you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free:

They would not listen; they did not know how --

Perhaps they'll listen now

[Verse 2]

Starry, Starry night

Portraits hung in empty halls

Frameless heads on nameless walls

With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

[Verse 3]

Like the strangers that you've met

The ragged men in ragged clothes

The silver thorn, a bloody rose

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

[Chorus]

Now I think I know

What you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free:

They would not listen; they're not listening still --

Perhaps they never will

[Refrain]

For they could not love you

But still, your love was true

[Outro]

And when no hope was left in sight

On that starry, starry night

You took your life as lovers often do --

But I could've told you, Vincent:

This world was never meant

For one as beautiful as you