Vincent - Don McLean

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"Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)" by Don McLean.


[Verse]
              
Starry, starry

      
 night
              
Paint your pal

        
ette blue and 

gray
              
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 colors on t

              
he snowy linen

   
 land


[Chorus]
             
Now I understa


nd
            
What you tried

          
 to say to me
              
And how you su

              
ffered for you

    
r sanity
             
And how you tr

              
ied to set the

   
m free
              
They would not

              
 listen, they 

    
did not know h

ow
          
Perhaps they'l

          
l listen now


[Verse]
              
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
              
Colors changin

      
g 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]
            
Now I understa

    
nd
              
What you tried

            
 to say to me
              
And how you su

              
ffered for you

     
r sanity
             
And how you tr

              
ied to set the

   
m free
              
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 lover

        
s often do
        
But I could've

 told you Vinc

ent
       
This world was

 never meant f

or
             
One as beautif

       
ul as you


[Verse]
              
Starry, starry

      
 night
              
Portraits hung

      
 in empty hall

s
              
Frame-less hea

         
ds 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 of bloody r

ose
             
Lie crushed an

              
d broken on th

           
e virgin snow


[Chorus]

              
Now I think I 

 
know
              
What you tried

       
 to say to me
              
And how you su

              
ffered for you

     
r 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


If anyone out there has any questions for me my E-mail is greenwater2292@yahoo.com

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