Starry, starry [G]night
Paint your palette [Am]blue and gray
Look out on a [C]summer’s day
With [D7]eyes that know the darkness in my [G]soul
Shadows on the [G]hills
Sketch the trees and the [Am]daffodils
Catch the breeze and the [C]winter chills
In [D7]colors on the snowy linen [G]land
Now I under- [Am]stand [D7]
What you [G]tried to say to [Em]me
How you suffered for your [Am7]sanity
[D7]How you tried to set them [E7]free
They did not listen, They did [Am7]not know how
[D7]Perhaps they’ll listen [G]now
Starry, starry [G]night
Flaming flowers that [Am]brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in [C]violet haze
[D7]Reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china [G]blue
Colors changing [G]hue
Morning fields of amber [Am]grain
Weathered faces [C]lined in pain
Are [D7]soothed beneath the artist’s loving [G]hand
Now I under- [Am]stand [D7]
What you [G]tried to say to [Em]me
How you suffered for your [Am7]sanity
[D7]How you tried to set them [E7]free
They did not listen, They did [Am7]not know how
[D7]Perhaps they’ll listen [G]now
For they could not [Am7]love you
[D7]But still your love was [G]true
[Em]And when no [A7]hope was left insight
On that [C]starry, starry night
You [G]took your life as lovers [E7]often do
But I [Am7]could have told you Vincent
[C]This world was never meant [D7]for one as beautiful as [G]you
Starry, starry [G]night
Portraits hung in [Am]empty halls
Frame less heads on [C]nameless walls
[D7]With eyes that watch the world and can’t [G]forget
Like the strangers that [G]you’ve met
The ragged men in [Am]ragged clothes
The silver thorn of [C]bloody rose
Lie [D7]crushed and broken on the virgin [G]snow
Now I think I [Am]know [D7]
What you tried to [G]say to [Em]me
How you suffered for your [Am7]sanity
[D7]How you tried to set them [E7]free
They did not listen they’re not [Am7]listening still
[D7]Perhaps they never[G]will
