[Verse 1]
              
Starry, starry

 
 night, paint 

your palette
            
Blue and grey,

              
 look out on a

 
 summer's day,

 
            
With eyes that

              
 know the dark

           
ness in my sou

l
              
Shadows on the

 
 hills, 
              
Sketch the tre

       
es and daffodi

ls
              
Catch the bree

           
ze and the win

ter chills 
            
In colours on 

              
the snowy line

  
n land

[Chorus]
              
And now I unde

    
rstand   what 

you tried to 
       
Say to me,    

              
how you suffer

            
ed for your sa

     
nity
              
How you tried 

            
to set them fr

ee, 
              
They would not

              
 listen, they 

    
did not know h

ow
            
Perhaps they'l

         
l listen now

[Verse 2]
              
Starry, starry

 
 night, flamin

g flowers that
            
Brightly blaze

              
, swirling clo

       
uds in violet 

haze
            
Reflect in Vin

              
cent’s eyes of

       
 China Blue
              
Colours changi

   
ng hue, 
              
Morning fields

    
 of amber grai

n
              
Weathered face

  
s lined with p

ain 
             
Are soothed be

              
neath the arti

           
sts loving han

d

[Chorus]
              
And now I unde

    
rstand   what 

you tried to 
       
Say to me,    

              
how you suffer

            
ed for your sa

     
nity
              
How you tried 

            
to set them fr

ee, 
              
They would not

              
 listen, they 

    
did not know h

ow
            
Perhaps they'l

         
l listen now

[Bridge]
              
For they could

             
 not love you,
              
But still your

              
 love was true
            
And when no ho

pe was left in

 sight 
        
On that starry

, starry night
             
You took your 

             
life as lovers

       
 often do
            
But I could ha

              
ve told you, V

             
incent, this w


orld was 
              
Never meant fo

             
r one as beaut

        
iful as you

[Verse 3]
              
Starry, starry

             
 night, portra

            
its hung in em

pty halls
              
Frameless head

     
s on nameless 

walls
            
With eyes that

              
 watch the wor

              
ld and can’t f

  
orget
              
Like the stran

              
gers that you’

   
ve met
              
The ragged men

    
 in ragged clo

thes 
              
The silver tho

      
rn, a bloody r

ose
            
Lie crushed an

              
d broken on th

         
e virgin snow

[Final Chorus]
              
Now I think I 

   
know,  what yo

u tried to 
       
Say to me,   a

              
nd how you suf

              
fered for your

       
 sanity
              
And how you tr

              
ied to set the

  
m free, 
              
They would not

              
 listen, they'

       
re not listeni

ng still
            
Perhaps they n

     
ever will