Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)

Words and music by Don McLean, arr. by Geoff Cottrell

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Lyrics
Starry
Paint outstarry
your nightblue and gray
palette
Look
With eyes on a summer's
that know the daydarkness
in my soul
Shadows
Sketch on the
thebreeze hills
trees and
Catch
chills the and the
the daffodils
winter
In colors on the snowy linen land
Now
WhatIyouunderstand
you tried to for
sayyour
to me
How
How you suffered
tried tolisten
set them sanity
They would
know how not theyfree
did not
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling
Reflect inclouds in violet
Vincent's eyes haze
of china
blue changing
Colors hue
Morning
Weathered fields
facesof amber
lined in grain
pain
Are soothed
loving hand beneath the artist's
Now
WhatIyouunderstand
you tried to for
sayyour
to me
How
How you suffered
tried sanity
They
know would
how nottolisten,
set them
theyfree
did not
Perhaps they'll listen now
For they
But still couldlove
your not was
love true
you
Andthat
On when no hope
starry was
starry left inside
night
You took your life as lovers often
do
But
ThisasIworld
could was
have told you Vincent
one beautifulnever
as youmeant for
Starry starry
Portraits hung night
in on
empty halls
Frameless
walls heads nameless
With
and eyes
can't that
forget watch the world
Like the strangers
The silver
ragged men of in that
raggedyou've met
clothes
The
Lie crushed thorn bloody rose
virgin snow and broken on the
Now
WhatIyou think
you I know
tried to for
sayyour
to me
How
How you suffered
tried to set them sanity
free
They did not
listening still listen, they're not
Perhaps they never will

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