Key: G
Introduction:
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night paint your pallete blue and grey
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Look out on a summers day with eyes tha know the darkness in my soul
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Shadows on hills sketch the tress and daffodils
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Catch the breeze and the winter chill In colours on the snowy linen land
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And now I understand what you tried to say to me
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How you suffered for you sanity How you tried to set them free
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They would not listen the did not know how perhaps they 'll listen now
Starry Starry
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night flamings flowers that brightly blaze
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Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
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Colours changing hue, morning fields of amber grey
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Weathered faces lined in pain, are soothed beneath the artists loving hand
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For the could not love you, but still your love was true
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And when no hope was left in sight on that starry starry night
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You took you life as lovers often do, But I could of told you Vincent
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This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
Starry Starry
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night portraits hung in empty halls
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frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and cant forget
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Like the strangers that you've met,the ragged men in ragged clothes
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The silver thorn the bloody rose Lies crushed and broken on the virgin snow
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And now I understand what you tried to say to me
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How you suffered for you sanity How you tried to set them free
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They would not listen theyre not listening still perhaps they never will