G
C~G
G
Starry, starry night
Am
Paint your palette blue and grey
C
Look out on a summer’s day
D7
G
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
G
C~G
G
Shadows on the hills,
Am
sketch the trees and the daffodils
C
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
D7
G
C~G
G
in colours on the snowy linen land
Am
And now I understand
D7
G
G~F~
Em
what you tried to say to me
Am7
and how you suffered for your sanity
D7
Em
and how you tried to set them free
A7
They would not listen, they did not know how
Am7
D7
G
per haps they listen now
G
C~G
G
Starry, starry night
Am
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
C
Swirling clouds in violet haze
D7
G
reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china blue
G
C~G
G
Colors changing hue,
Am
morning fields of amber grain
C
Weathered faces lined in pain,
D7
G
C~G
G
are soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand
Am
And now I understand
D7
G
G~F~
Em
what you tried to say to me
Am7
How you suffered for your sanity
D7
Em
How you tried to set them free
A7
They would not listen, they did not know how
Am7
D7
G
per haps they listen now
G
Am7
For they could not love you,
D7
G
G~F~
Em
but still your love was true
Am7
And when no hope was left in sight
Cm6
on that starry, starry night
G
F7
E7
You took your life as lovers often do,
Am7
But I could have told you Vincent
C
D7
G
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
G
C~G
G
Starry, starry night
Am
Portraits hung in empty halls
C
Frameless heads on nameless walls,
D7
G
with eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
Am
the ragged men in ragged clothes
C
The silver thorn, the bloody rose,
D7
G
C~G
G
lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Am
And now I think I know
D7
G
G~F~
Em
what you tried to say to me
Am7
How you suffered for your sanity
D7
Em
How you tried to set them free
A7
They would not listen, they’re not listening still
Am7
D7
G
per haps they never will
C
Am
D7
Cm6
C~G
E7
G~F~
A7
Em
Am7
G
F7
