Starry, starry night

Paint your palette blue and gray

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 winter chills

In colors 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

Perhaphs they'll listen now

Starry, starry night

Flaming flowers brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze

Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue, colors changing hue

Morning fields of amber grain weathered faces lined in pain

Are soothed beneath the artist's 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

Perhaphs 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've 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, a bloody rose

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

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

Perhaphs they'll listen now