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[Verse 1]
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Starry, starry night, paint your palette blue and grey.
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Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
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Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodills,
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catch the breeze and the winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land.

[Chorus]
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Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
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how you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free.
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They would not listen, they did not know how, perhaps they'll listen now.

[Verse 2]
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Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
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swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of chine blue.
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Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain,
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weathered faces lined in pain are soothed 'neath the artists's loving hand.

[Chorus]
           Em    A7                D          Bm
Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
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how you suffered for your sanity and how you tried to set them free.
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They would not listen, they did not know how, perhaps they'll listen now.

[Bridge]
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For they could not love you and still your love was true
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and when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night,
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you took your life as lovers often do, but I could have told you, Vincent,
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this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

[Verse 3]
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Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls,
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frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
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Like the stranger that you've met, the ragged man in ragged clothes,
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the silver thorn of bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow,

[End-Chorus]
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and now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
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how you suffered for your sanity and how you tried to set them free.
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They would not listen, they're not listening still, perhaps they'll never [Outro] will.

[Outro]
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