[Verse 1]
              
Starry, starry

          
  night,   pai

           
nt your palett

          
e blue and gre

y
              
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 winter 

             
chills, in col

              
ors on the sno

             
wy linen land

[Chorus]
            
And now I unde

             
rstand what yo

             
u tried to say

         
 to me,
              
How you suffer

            
ed for your sa

             
nity, how you 

              
tried to set t

     
hem free,
              
They would not

              
 listen, they 

             
did not know h

           
ow, perhaps th

              
ey'll listen n

  
ow

[Verse 2]
              
Starry, starry

            
  night,      

         
    flaming fl

            
owers that bri

ghtly blaze,
              
Swirling cloud

             
s in violet ha

             
ze reflecting 

              
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

              
tist's loving 

 
hand

[Chorus]
            
And now I unde

             
rstand what yo

             
u tried to say

       
 to me,
              
How you suffer

            
ed for your sa

             
nity, how you 

              
tried to set t

     
hem free,
              
They would not

              
 listen, they 

             
did not know h

           
ow, perhaps th

              
ey'll listen n


ow

[Bridge]
              
For they could

           
 not love you,

              
 but still you

             
r love was tru

                
e
             
And when no ho

             
pe was left in

              
 sight on that

  
 starry, starr

y 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,      

             
          port

              
raits hung in 

       
empty 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 ragg

           
ed men in ragg

ed clothes
              
The silver tho

             
rn of bloody r

             
ose, lie crush

              
ed and broken 

              
on the virgin 

 
snow

[Chorus]
              
And now I thin

           
k I know what 

              
you tried to s

        
ay to me,
              
How you suffer

            
ed for your sa

             
nity, how you 

              
tried to set t

     
hem free,
              
They would not

              
 listen, they'

             
re not listeni

            
ng still, perh

             
aps they never

  
 will