[Verse 1]
Starry, starry night[G], [Gsus4]paint [G]your palette blue and [Am]grey
Look out on a [C]summer's day, with [D]eyes that know the darkness in my [G]soul
Shadows on the hills[G], [Gsus4] [G]Sketch the trees and [Am]daffodils
Catch the breeze and [C]winter chills, in [D]colors on the snowy linen [G]land
[Chorus]
And now I [Am]understand [D]what you tried to [G]say to me,[G/F#] [Em]
How you suffered for your [Am]sanity, [D]how you tried to set them [Em]free,
They would not listen, they did not [A]know how, [Am]perhaps [D]they'll listen [G]now
[Verse 2]
Starry, starry night, [G] [Gsus4] [G]flaming flowers that [Am]brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in [C]violet haze [D]reflecting Vincent's eyes of china [G]blue
Colors changing hue,[G] [Gsus4] [G] Morning fields of [Am]amber grain
Weathered faces [C]lined in pain are [D]soothed beneath the artist's loving [G]hand
[Chorus]
And now I [Am]understand [D]what you tried to Gsay to me,[G/F#] [Em]
How you suffered for your [Am]sanity, [D]how you tried to set them [Em]free,
They would not listen, they did not [A]know how, [Am]perhaps [D]they'll listen [G]now
[Bridge]
For they could not [Am]love you, [D]but still your love was [G]true [G/F#] [Em]
And when no [Am]hope was left in sight on that [Cm]starry, starry night,
You [G]took your life as [G/F]lovers often [E7]do
But I [Am]could have told you, Vincent, this [C]world was
Never [Cmaj7]meant for one as [D7]beautiful as [G]you
[Verse 3]
Starry, starry night,[G] [Gsus4] [G] portraits hung in empty [Am]halls,
Frameless heads on [C]nameless walls with [D]eyes that watch the world and can't [G]forget
Like the strangers that you've met[G] [Gsus4] [G] The ragged men in [Am]ragged clothes
The silver thorn of [C]bloody rose, lie [D]crushed and broken on the virgin [G]snow
[Chorus]
And now I think I [Am]know [D]what you tried to [G]say to me,[G/F#] [Em]
How you suffered for your [Am]sanity, [D]how you tried to set them [Em]free,
They would not listen, they're not [A]listening still, [Am]perhaps[D] they never [G]will