Intro: G G4 G Starry, starry night Am A9 Am Paint your palette blue and gray C Look out on a summer's day D7 G With eyes that know the darkness in my soul G4 G Shadows on the hills Am A9 Am Sketch the trees and the daffodils C Catch the breeze and the winter chills D7 G C G In colors on the snowy linen land Am D7 G G/F# Em Now I understand, what you tried to say to me Am D7 And how you suffered for your sanity Em How you tried to set them free A7 Am7 They would not listen, they did not know how D7 G G4 G Perhaps they'll listen now G G4 G Starry, starry night Am A9 Am Flaming flowers that brightly blaze C Swirling clouds in violet haze D7 G Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue G4 G Colors changing hue Am A9 Am Morning fields of amber grain C Weathered faces lined in pain D7 G Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand Am D7 G G/F# Em Now I understand, what you tried to say to me Am D7 And how you suffered for your sanity Em How you tried to set them free A7 Am7 They would not listen, they did not know how D7 G Perhaps they'll listen now Am D7 For they could not love you G Em But still your love was true Am And when no hope was left inside Cm 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 D7 G C G This world was never meant for one as, beautiful as you G4 G Starry, starry night Am A9 Am Portraits hung in empty halls C Frameless heads on nameless walls D7 G With eyes that watch the world and can't forget G4 G Like the strangers that you've met Am A9 Am The ragged men in ragged clothes C A silver thorn, a bloody rose D7 G Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow Am D7 G G/F# Em Now I think I know, what you tried to say to me Am D7 And how you suffered for your sanity Em How you tried to set them free A7 Am7 They would not listen, they're not listening still D7 G Perhaps they never will...