Vincent

Vincent 

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Starry, starry night, paint your palette blue and grey
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Look out on a summer’s day, with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
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Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and daffodills
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Catch the breeze and winterchills, in colors on the snowly linnen land
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And now I understand what you tried to say to me,   how you suffered for your sanity
D7                          Em // stop                            A7           Am7
  How you tried to set them free, they would not listen, they did not know how
D7                       G
  Perhaps they’ll listen now

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Starry, starry night, flaming flow’rs that brightly blaze
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Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent’s eyes of China blue
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Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain
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Weathered faces lined inpain, are soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand
               Am                      G         Em                            Am7
And now I understand what you tried to say to me,    how you suffered for your sanity
D7                          Em // stop                            A7           Am7
  How you tried to set them free, they would not listen, they did not know how
D7                       G
  Perhaps they’ll listen now

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For they could not love you,   but still your love was true
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  And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do
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But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautifull as you

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Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls
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Frameless heads on nameless walls, with eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
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Like the strangers that you’ve met, the ragged men in ragged clothes
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The silver thorn of bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
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And now I think I know, what you tried to say to me,   how you suffered for your sanity
D7                          Em // stop                               A7              Am7
  How you tried to set them free, they would not listen, they’re not listening still
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  Perhaps they never will