G                         Am
Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and grey
              C                 D7                                G
Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
                                      Am
Shadows on hills sketch the trees and daffodils
                         C               D7                        G
Catch the breeze and the winter chill in colors on the snowy linen land

C   G

[Chorus]
                 Am  D7                G           Em
And now I understand  what you tried to say to me
                          Am7     D7                           Em
How you suffered for your sanity     How you tried to set them free
                                A7          Am7   D7                  G
They would not listen, they did not know how,  perhaps they'll listen now

[Verse 2]
                G                         Am
Starry starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze
               C                D7                                G
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
                                      Am
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain
                         C               D7                        G
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

C   G

[Chorus]
          G                     Am7       D7                      G
(listen now)  For the could not love you  but still, your love was true
            Em             Am7               Cm6
And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night
    G                 F7           E7                  Am7
You took your life as lovers often do but I could have told you Vincent
     C                                 D7           G
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

[Verse 3]
                 G                       Am
Starry starry night, portraits hung in empty halls
                     C                   D7
Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that 
                              G
watch the world and can't forget
                                                       Am
Like the strangers that you've met, the ragged men in ragged clothes
                         C               D7                        G
The silver thorn, the bloody rose, lies crushed and broken on the virgin snow

C   G

[Chorus]
                  Am  D7                    G           Em
And now I understand   what you tried to say to me
                         Am7     D7                           Em
How you suffered for your sanity     How you tried to set them free
                                   A7             Am7  D7
They would not listen, they're not  listening still,   perhaps
            G
they never will