[Verse 1]E
Starry, starry night
F#m
Paint your palette blue and grey
A
Look out on a summer's day
B E
With eyes that know the darkness of my soul
A E
Shadows on the hill
F#m
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
A
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
B
In colors on the snowy linen land
[Chorus]E F#m B E B C#m
Now I understand what you tried to say to me
F#m B
How you suffered for your sanity
C#m
How you tried to set them free
F#m A
They did not listen, they did not know how
B E
Perhaps they'll listen now
[Verse 2]E
Starry, starry night
F#m
Flaming flowers brightly blaze
A
Swirling clouds in violet haze
B E
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
A E
And the colors changing hue
F#m
Morning fields of amber grain
A
Weathered faces lined in pain
B E
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
[Chorus]E F#m B E B C#m
Now I understand what you tried to say to me
F#m B
How you suffered for your sanity
C#m
How you tried to set them free
F#m A
They did not listen, they did not know how
B E
Perhaps they'll listen now
[Bridge] F#m
For they could not love you
B E B C#m
Still your love was true
A
How when no hope was left in sight
Am
On that starry, starry night
E C#m
You took your life, as lovers often do
F#m
But I could have told you, Vincent
A E
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
[Verse 3] E
Starry, starry night
F#m
Portraits hung in empty halls
D A B
Frameless head on nameless walls
E A
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
A E
Like the strangers that you've met
F#m
Oh the ragged men in the ragged clothes
F#m A
And the silver thorn of bloody rose
E B E
Lies crushed and broken on the virgin snow
[Outro]E F#m B E B C#m
Now I understand what you tried to say to me
F#m B
How you suffered for your sanity
C#m
How you tried to set them free
F#m A
They did not listen, they did not know how
B E
