[Verse 1]B Starry, starry nightC#m Paint your palette blue and greyE Look out on a summer's dayF# B With eyes that know the darkness in my soulE B E Shadows on the hillsB C#m Sketch the trees and the daffodilsC#m E Catch the breeze and the winter chillsF# B E B In colors on the snowy linen land [Chorus]C#m Now I understandF# B G#m What you tried to say to meC#m And how you suffered for your sanityF# G#m How you tried to set them freeC# C#m They would not listen, they did not know howF# B E B Perhaps they'll listen now [Verse 2]B E Starry, starry nightB C#m Flaming flowers that brightly blazeC#m E Swirling clouds in a violet hazeF# B Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blueE B E B Colors changing hueC#m Morning fields of amber grainE Weathered faces lined in painF# B Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand [Chorus]C#m Now I understandF# B F# G#m What you tried to say to meC#m And how you suffered for your sanityF# G#m How you tried to set them freeC# C#m They would not listen, they did not know howF# B Perhaps they'll listen now [Bridge]C#m For they could not love youF# B G#m But still your love was trueC#m And when no hope was left in sightE On that starry, starry nightB F# G#m You took your life, as lovers often doC#m But I could've told you, VincentE F# B E B This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you [Verse 3]B E B Starry, starry nightC#m Portraits hung in empty hallsE Frameless heads on nameless wallsF# B With eyes that watch the world and can't forgetE B E B Like the strangers that you've metC#m The ragged men in ragged clothesE The silver thorn on the bloody roseF# B E B Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow [Outro]C#m Now I think I knowF# B F# G#m What you tried to say to meC#m And how you suffered for your sanityF# G#m And how you tried to set them freeC# C#m They would not listen, they're not listening stillB F# G#m Perhaps they never will [Outro]C#m F# B E B
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