[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 colours on 

              
the snowy line

  
n land


[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 would not

              
 listen, they 

            
did not know h

   
ow
              
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
 
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]
              
Oh, now I unde

      
rstand
              
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,

      
 love you
              
But still your

               
 love was true
            
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 world was

              
 never meant f

             
or one as beau

         
tiful as you, 

Oh


[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 a bloody

 rose
             
Lie crushed an

              
d broken on th

          
e virgin snow


[Chorus]
              
Now I think I 

    
know
              
Oh, what you t

             
ried 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 listeni

ng still
             
Perhaps they n

     
ever will