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]
Shadows on the hills
[Am]
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
[C]
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
[D] [G]
In colours on the snowy linen land
Chorus
[Am] [D]
Now I understand
[G] [Em]
What you tried to say to me
[Am] [D]
How you suffered for your sanity
[Em]
How you tried to set them free
[Am] [D]
They would not listen, they did not know how
[G]
Perhaps they'll listen now
Verse 2
[G]
Starry, starry night
[Am]
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
[C]
Swirling clouds in violet haze
[D] [G]
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue
[G]
Colours changing hue
[Am]
Morning fields of amber grain
[C]
Weathered faces lined in pain
[D] [G]
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Chorus
[Am] [D]
Oh, now I understand
[G] [Em]
What you tried to say to me
[Am] [D]
How you suffered for your sanity
[Em]
How you tried to set them free
[Am] [D]
They would not listen, they did not know how
[G]
Perhaps they'll listen now
Bridge
[Am] [D]
For they could not love you, love you
[G] [Em]
But still your love was true
[Am] [Cm]
And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night
[G] ([F]) [E7]
You took your life as lovers often do
[Am]
But I could have told you, Vincent
[C] [D] [G]
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you, Oh
Verse 3
[G]
Starry, starry night
[Am]
Portraits hung in empty halls
[C]
Frameless heads on nameless walls
[D] [G]
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
[G]
Like the strangers that you've met
[Am]
The ragged men in ragged clothes
[C]
The silver thorn of a bloody rose
[D] [G]
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Chorus
[Am] [D]
Now I think I know
[G] [Em]
Oh, what you tried to say to me
[Am] [D]
How you suffered for your sanity
[Em]
How you tried to set them free
[Am]
They would not listen, they're not listening still
[D] [G]
Perhaps they never will
