Vincent
Don McClean

Starry, starry night

Paint your pallet blue and gray

Look out on a summer's day

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul


Shadows on the hills

Sketch the trees and the daffodils

Catch the breeze and the winter chills

In colors on the snowy linen land


Now I understand

What you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free


They would not listen

They did not know how

Perhaps they'll listen now


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 field of amber grain

Weathered faces lined in pain

Are soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand


Now I understand

What you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free


They would not listen

They did not know how


Perhaps they'll listen now



For they could not love you

But still your love was true


And when no hope was left in sight

On that starry, starry night

You took your life as lovers often do


But I could have told you Vincent

This world was never meant

For one as beautiful as you


Starry, starry night

Portraits hung in empty halls

Frameless heads on nameless walls

With eyes that watch the world and can't forget


Like the strangers that you've met

The ragged men in ragged clothes

The silver thorn of bloody rose

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow


Now I think I know

What you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free


They would not listen

They're not listening still

Perhaps they never will


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