Vincent Don McLean Fingerpick G G/C G Am Starry starry night paint your palette blue and gray C Cmaj7 D G Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul G/C G Am Shadows on the hills sketch the trees and the daffodils C Cmaj7 D G Catch the breeze and the winter chills in colors on the snowy linen land Am D G G/F# Em Now I understand what you tried to say to me Am D Em How you suffered for you sanity, and how you tried to set them free A Am D G They would not listen the did not know how, perhaps they'll listen now G G/C G Am Starry starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze C Cmaj7 D G Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue G/C G Am Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain C Cmaj7 D G Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand Refrain Am D G G/F# Em For they could not love you, but still your love was true Am Cm And when no hope was left in sight on that starry starry night G B7/F# E-E7 Am You took you life as lovers often do, but I could have told you, Vincent C Cmaj7 D G This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you G G/C G Am Starry starry night, portraits hung in empty halls C Cmaj7 D G Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can't forget G/C G Am Like the strangers that you've met, the ragged men in ragged clothes C Cmaj7 D G The silver thorns of a bloody rose lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow Am D G G/F# Em Now I think I know what you tried to say to me Am D Em And how you suffered for your sanity and how you tried to set them free A Am D G They would not listen they're not listening still perhaps they never will