E Starry,
G starry night, _ _ _ paint
Am your palette blue and grey, _ _
C look out on a summer's day,.
G with eyes that know
D the darkness
G in my soul, _ shadows on the hills, _ _ _ _ sketch
Am the trees and the daffodils,.
_ _ catch the
C breeze and the winter chills,
D in colours on the snowy
G linen land,
C _
F# _
G _ _ .
now I
Am understand,.
_ _
D _ _ .
what you
G tried to say
Bm to me,
Em _ .
how you suffered for
Am your sanity, _
D _ .
how you tried to
Em set them free,.
they would not listen, they
A did not know how, _
C _ _ .
D perhaps they'll
G listen _ now.
_ _ .
_ Starry, starry night, _ _ _ _ flaming
Am flowers that brightly blaze, _ _
C swirling clouds in violet haze,.
D reflect in Vincent's eyes
G of china blue, _ .
Em colours
G changing hue, _ _ _ _ morning
Am fields of amber grain, _ _ .
weathered faces
C lined in pain,
D are soothed beneath the
G artist's loving hand,
C now I
Am understand,.
_ _
D _ .
what you
G tried to say
Bm to me,
Em _ .
how you
Am suffered for your sanity, _
D.
how you tried to set
Em them free,.
they would not listen,
A they did not know how, _
Am _
D perhaps they'll listen
G now, for they could
Am not love you,.
_
D but still your
G love was true, _ _
Em _ _ and when no
Am hope was left in sight on
Cm that starry, starry night,.
G you took your
F life as
E lovers often do, _ but
Am I could have told you Vincent,.
C.
this world was never meant for
D one as beautiful _ .
G as
C you,
G _ _ _ _ .
Em starry,
G starry night, _ _ _ .
portraits
Am hung in empty halls, _ _ _ frameless heads
C on nameless walls,.
D.
with eyes that watch the world and
G can't forget, like the
C strangers that
G you've met,.
the ragged
Am men in ragged clothes, a silver
C thorn, a bloody rose,.
_
D lie crushed and broken on the
G virgin's soul,
Em now I think
Am I know,.
_
Em _
D _ _ .
what you
G tried to say
Bm to me,
Em how you suffered
Am for your sanity,.
_ _
D.
how you tried to set
Em them free, they would not listen, they're
A not listening still,.
_
Am _ _ .
D perhaps they
G never will.
_ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .