starry starry night

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summers day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colours on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen
They did not know how
Perhaps theyll listen now
Starry, starry night

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds and violet haze
Reflect in Vincents eyes of china blue
Colours changing hue

Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand
Now I understand

What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen

They did not know how
Perhaps theyll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true

And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
Like the strangers that youve met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity

And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen
Theyre not listening still
Perhaps they never will...