G Starry, starry night Am Paint your pallet blue and grey C Look out on a summerʼs day D G With eyes that know the darkness in my soul G Shadows on the hills Am Sketch the trees and the daffodils C Catch the breeze and the winter chills D G C G In colours on the snowy linen land Chorus: Am D And now I understand G Em What you tried to say to me Am D How you suffered for your sanity Em How you tried to set them free A7 Am They would not listen, they did not know how D G Perhaps they listen now G Starry, starry night Am Flaming flowers that brightly blaze C Swirling clouds in violet haze D G Reflect in Vincentʼs eyes of china blue G Colors changing hue Am Morning fields of amber grain C Weathered faces lined in pain D G Are soothed beneath the artistʼs loving hand Chorus: Am D And now I understand G Em What you tried to say to me Am D How you suffered for your sanity Em How you tried to set them free A7 Am They would not listen, they did not know how D G Perhaps they listen now Bridge: Am D For they could not love you G Em But still your love was true Am And when no hope was left in sight 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 D G This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you G Starry, starry night Am Portraits hung in empty halls C Frameless heads on nameless walls D G With eyes that watch the world and canʼt forget G Like the strangers that youʼve met Am The ragged men in ragged clothes C The silver thorn, the bloody rose D G Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow Outro: Am D And now I think I know G Em What you tried to say to me Am D How you suffered for your sanity Em How you tried to set them free A7 They would not listen, theyʼre not listening still Am D G Perhaps they never will