VINCENT Don McLean VERSE: G Am Starry Starry night, paint your pallete blue and grey C D7 G Look out on a summers day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul Am Shadows on hills sketch the trees and daffodils C D7 G Catch the breeze and the winter chill in colors on the snowy linen land CHORUS: C G Am D7 G Em And now I understand what you tried to say to me Am7 D7 Em How you suffered for you sanity How you tried to set them free A7 Am7 D7 G They would not listen the did not know how perhaps they 'll listen now VERSE: 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 artists loving hand BRIDGE: G Am7 D7 G {listen now} For they could not love you but still your love was true Em Am7 Cm6 And when no hope was left in sight on that starry starry nite G F7 E7 Am7 You took you 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 VERSE: Starry starry night, portraits hung in empty halls frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world & can't forget Like the strangers that you've met, the ragged men in ragged clothes The silver thorn the bloody rose lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow CHORUS: C G Am D7 G Em And now I understand what you tried to say to me Am7 D7 Em How you suffered for you 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