Intro: G Gsus4   G Gsus4  G Gsus4  G

Verse 1:
                    G    Gsus4 G                    Am
Starry, starry  night,   paint your palette blue and grey
                C                 D                                G
Look out on a summer's day, with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
                   G Gsus4 G                       Am
Shadows on the hills,       Sketch the trees and daffodils
                      C                D                             G
Catch the breeze and winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land
 
Chorus:
            Am      D                   G         G    Em
And now I understand what you tried to say to me,
                          Am      D                          Em
How you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free,
                                     A         Am     D                 G
They would not listen, they did not know how, perhaps they'll listen now
 
Verse 2:
                        G  Gsus4 G                    Am
Starry, starry  night,          flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
                   C            D                                    G
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflecting Vincent's eyes of china blue
                    G  Gsus4 G                        Am
Colors changing hue,               Morning fields of amber grain
               C                   D                                   G
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
 
Chorus:
            Am      D                   G       G    Em
And now I understand what you tried to say to me,
                          Am      D                          Em
How you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free,
                                     A         Am     D               G
They would not listen, they did not know how, perhaps they'll listen now
 
Bridge:
                    Am     D                          G       G             Em
For they could not love you, 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                                 C
But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was
                        D             G
Never meant for one as beautiful as you
 
Verse 3:
                    G  Gsus4 G                                 Am
Starry, starry  night,                portraits hung in empty halls,
                   C                   D                                  G
Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can't forget
                                 G  Gsus4 G                        Am
Like the strangers that you've met              The ragged men in ragged clothes
                      C                D                               G
The silver thorn of bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
 
Chorus:
                  Am  D                   G       G    Em
And now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
                          Am      D                          Em
How you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free,
                                      A            Am   D               G
They would not listen, they're not listening still, perhaps they never will
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