Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) Lyrics

Song Text:

Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a
summer's 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 they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers
that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds and violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's
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 they'll 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 you've 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
They're not listening still

Perhaps they never will...