Key: G
Introduction:
G
Starry, starry night
Am
Paint your pallet blue and grey
C D7 G
Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Am
Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils
C D7 G C G
Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in colours on the snowy linen land
Am D7 G Em
And now I understand what you tried to say to me
Am7 D7 Em
How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free
A7 Am7 D7 G
They would not listen, they did not know how perhaps they listen now
G
Starry, starry night
Am
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
C D7 G
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Am
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain
C D7 G
Weathered faces lined in pain, are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Am D7 G Em
And now I understand what you tried to say to me
Am7 D7 Em
How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free
A7 Am7 D7 G
They would not listen, they did not know how perhaps they listen now
G Am7 D7 G Em
For they could not love you, but still your love was true
Am7 Cm6
And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night
G F7 E7 Am7
You took your life as lovers often do, But I could have told you Vincent
C D7 G
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
G
Starry, starry night
Am
Portraits hung in empty halls
C D7 G
Frameless heads on nameless walls, with eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Am
Like the strangers that you've met, the ragged men in ragged clothes
C D7 G
The silver thorn, the bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Am D7 G Em
And now I think I know what you tried to say to me
Am7 D7 Em
How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free
A7 Am7 D7 G
They would not listen, they're not listening still perhaps they never will
G Am C D7 G