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