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