Starry Starry Night

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 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 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 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 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 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 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