[Verse 1]

G

Starry, starry night

Am

Paint your pallet blue and grey

C D7 G

Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Am

Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils

C D7 G C G

Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in colours on the snowy linen land

[Chorus]

Am D7 G

And now I understand what you tried to say to me

Em Am D7 Em

How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free

A7 D7 G

They would not listen, they did not know how perhaps they listen now

[Verse 2]

G

Starry, starry night

Am

Flaming flowers brightly blaze

C D7 G

Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Am

Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain

C D7 G

Weathered faces lined in pain, are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

[Chorus]

Am D7 G

And now I understand what you tried to say to me

Em Am D7 Em

How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free

A7 D7 G

They would not listen, they did not know how perhaps they listen now

[Extended Chorus]

G Am D7 G Em

For they could not love you, but still your love was true

Am C

And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night

G F E7 Am

You took your 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 3]

G

Starry, starry night

Am

Portraits hung in empty halls

C D7 G

Frameless heads on nameless walls, with eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Am

Like the strangers that you've met, the ragged men in ragged clothes

C D7 G

The silver thorn,and the bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

[Final Chorus]

Am D7 G

And now I think I know what you tried to say to me

Em Am D7 Em

How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free

A7 D7 G

They would not listen, they're not listening still perhaps they never will