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