Verse
| G | G | Am | Am |Starry, starry night Paint your pallet blue and grey | C | D7 | G |Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul | G | G | Am | Am |Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils | C | D7 | G | G |Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in colours on the snowy linen land
Hook
| Am | D7 | G D/F# | Em |And now I understand what you tried to say to me | Am7 | D7 | Em |How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free | A7 | Am7 D7 | G |They would not listen, they did not know how perhaps they listen now
Instruments
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Verse 2
| G | G | Am | Am |Starry, starry night Flaming flowers that brightly blaze | C | D7 | G |Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue | G | G | Am | Am |Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain | C | D7 | G |Weathered faces lined in pain, are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Hook
| Am | D7 | G D/F# | Em |And now I understand what you tried to say to me | Am7 | D7 | Em |How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free | A7 | Am7 D7 | G |They would not listen, they did not know how perhaps they listen now
Hook 2
| Am7 | D7 | G D/F# | Em |For they could not love you, but still your love was true | Am7 | Cm7 |And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night | G F | E7 | Am7 |You took your life as lovers often do, But I could have told you Vincent| C | D7 | G | G |This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
Verse 3
| G | G | Am | Am |Starry, starry night Portraits hung in empty halls | C | D7 | G |Frameless heads on nameless walls, with eyes that watch the world and can't forget | G | G | Am | Am |Like the strangers that you've met, the ragged men in ragged clothes | C | D7 | G |The silver thorn, the bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Ending
| Am | D7 | G D/F# | Em |And now I think I know what you tried to say to me | Am7 | D7 | Em |How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free | A7 | Am7 D7 | G | G | G | G |They would not listen, they're not listening still perhaps they never will…
