[[Verse 1]
[B]
Starry, starry night
[C#m]
Paint your palette blue and grey
[E]
Look out on a summer's day
[F#] [B]
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
[E] [B] [E]
Shadows on the hills
[B] [C#m]
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
[C#m] [E]
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
[F#] [B] [E] [B]
In colors on the snowy linen land
Chorus
[C#m]
Now I understand
[F#] [B] [B/A#] [G#m]
What you tried to say to me
[G#m] [C#m]
And how you suffered for your sanity
[F#] [G#m]
How you tried to set them free
[C#] [C#m]
They would not listen, they did not know how
[F#] [B] [E] [B]
Perhaps they'll listen now
Verse 2
[B] [E]
Starry, starry night
[B] [C#m]
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
[C#m] [E]
Swirling clouds in a violet haze
[F#] [B]
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
[E] [B] [E] [B]
Colors changing hue
[B] [C#m]
Morning fields of amber grain
[C#m] [E]
Weathered faces lined in pain
[F#] [B]
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Chorus
[C#m]
Now I understand
[F#] [B] [B/A#] [G#m]
What you tried to say to me
[G#m] [C#m]
And how you suffered for your sanity
[F#] [G#m]
How you tried to set them free
[C] [C#m]
They would not listen, they did not know how
[F#] [B] [B]
Perhaps they'll listen now
Bridge
[C#m]
For they could not love you
[F#] [B] [B/A#] [G#m]
But still your love was true
[G#m] [C#m]
And when no hope was left in sight
[E]
On that starry, starry night
[B] [B/A#] [G#m]
You took your life, as lovers often do
[C#m]
But I could've told you, Vincent
[E] [F#] [B] [B] [E] [B]
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
Verse 3
[B] [E] [B]
Starry, starry night
[B] [C#m]
Portraits hung in empty halls
[C#m] [E]
Frameless heads on nameless walls
[F#] [B]
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
[E] [B] [E] [B]
Like the strangers that you've met
[B] [C#m]
The ragged men in ragged clothes
[C#m] [E]
The silver thorn on the bloody rose
[F#] [B] [E] [B]
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Outro
[B] [C#m] [F#]
Now I think I know
[B] [B/A#] [G#m]
What you tried to say to me
[G#m] [C#m]
And how you suffered for your sanity
[F#] [G#m]
And how you tried to set them free
[C#] [C#m]
They would not listen, they're not listening still
[B] [B/A#] [G#m]
Perhaps they never will
Outro
[C#m] [F#] [B] [E]
[B]
