[Verse 1]
              
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

[Pre-Chorus]
          
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 did not l

              
isten, They di

   
d not know how
            
Perhaps they'l

         
l listen now

[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
              
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

[Pre-Chorus]
          
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 did not l

              
isten, They di

   
d not know how
            
Perhaps they'l

         
l listen now

[Chorus]
              
For they could

     
 not love you 
              
But still your

          
 love was true
            
And when no ho

pe was left in

side 
        
On that starry

, starry night
             
You took your 

            
life as lovers

 
 often do
            
But I could ha

            
ve told you Vi

ncent
            
This world was

             
 never meant f

         
or one as
             
beautiful as y

ou

[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 of bloody r

ose
            
Lie crushed an

              
d broken on th

         
e virgin snow

[Pre-Chorus]
             
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 did not l

              
isten, They're

      
 not listening

 still
            
Perhaps they n

     
ever will