[Intro]
          

[Verse 1]
              
Starry, starry

        
 night,
              
Paint your pal

            
ette 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 the daf

     
fodils,
            
Catch the bree

           
ze and the win

   
ter chills
            
In colours on 

              
the snowy line

  
n land.

[Interlude 1]
        

[Chorus 1]
           
Now I understa

      
nd
            
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?

[Interlude 2]
GM7(no5)  G6(no5)  G5

[Verse 2]
              
Starry, starry

         
 night,
             
Flaming flower

            
s that brightl

    
y blaze,
            
Swirling cloud

        
s in violet ha


ze
            
Reflect in Vin

              
cent's eyes of

       
 China blue.
         
Colours changi

        
ng hue,
             
Morning fields

        
 of amber grai

   
n,
            
Weathered face

       
s lined in pai


n,
            
Are soothed be

              
neath the arti

            
st's loving ha

nd.

[Chorus 1]
           
Now I understa

     
nd
            
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 world was

       
 never meant f

or one
            
As beautiful a

  
s you.

[Interlude 3]
         

[Verse 3]
              
Starry, starry

        
 night,
             
Portraits hung

        
 in empty hall

  
s,
            
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, the bloody

 
 rose
            
Lie crushed an

              
d broken on th

         
e virgin snow.

[Chorus 2]
             
Now I think I 

      
know
            
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're not li

               
stening still,
            
Perhaps they n

     
ever will.

[Outro]
    
  G6(no5)       


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[Verse]
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[Interlude 1]
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[Chorus]
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[Interlude 2]
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[Bridge]
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[Outro]
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