[Verse]
              
Starry Starry 

             
night paint yo

           
ur pallete blu

e and grey
              
Look out on a 

             
summer's day w

            
ith eyes that 

              
know the darkn

          
ess in my soul
              
Shadows on the

              
 hills sketch 

              
the tress and 

    
the daffodils
              
Catch the bree

             
ze and the win

             
ter chill In c

             
olors on the s

           
nowy linen lan

d

[Chorus]
            
        Now I 

          
understand    

              
  what you tri

             
ed to say to m

    
e
              
How you suffer

            
ed for your sa

           
nity     How y

              
ou tried to se

       
t them free
              
They would not

              
 listen they d

            
id not know ho

         
w   perhaps th

              
ey'll listen n


ow

[Verse]
              
Starry starry 

             
night flaming 

             
flowers that b


rightly blaze
              
Swirling cloud

             
s in violet ha

            
ze reflect in 

              
Vincent's eyes

          
 of china blue
              
Colors changin

              
g hue, morning

           
 fields of amb

er grain
              
Weathered face

             
s lined in pai

            
n are soothed 

              
beneath the ar

             
tists loving h

and

[Chorus]
            
        Now I 

           
understand    

             
  what you tri

             
ed to say to m

     
e
              
How you suffer

            
ed for your sa

           
nity     How y

              
ou tried to se

       
t them free
              
They would not

              
 listen they d

            
id not know ho

         
w   perhaps th

              
ey'll listen n


ow


[Bridge]
             
          For 

              
they could not

         
 love you  but

              
 still your lo

       
ve was true
            
    And when n

           
o hope was lef

              
t in sight on 

     
that starry st

arry night
             
You took you l

            
ife as lovers 

            
often do But I

 
 could've told

 you Vincent
             
This world was

              
 never meant f

            
or one as beau

         
tiful as you

[Verse]
              
Starry starry 

             
night portrait

              
s hung in empt

 
y halls
              
frameless head

             
s on nameless 

            
walls with eye

              
s that watch t

              
he world and c

        
an't forget
              
Like the stran

              
gers that you'

              
ve met,the rag

           
ged men in rag

ged clothes
              
The silver tho

             
rn a bloody ro

            
se Lie crushed

              
 and broken on

     
 the virgin sn

ow


[Chorus]
            
        Now I 

            
think I know  

            
    what you t

             
ried to say to

       
 me
              
How you suffer

           
ed for you san

            
ity     How yo

              
u tried to set

      
 them free
              
They would not

              
 listen, they'

            
re not listeni

           
ng still     p

            
erhaps they ne

    
ver will