[ti:starry night] [ar:Don Mclean] [al:] [by:] [00:00.60]stary night [00:01.69] [00:01.74]Starry, starry night [00:05.79]Paint your palette blue and gray [00:11.82]Look out on a summer's day [00:15.06]With eyes that know the darkness in my soul [00:19.55]Shadows on the hills [00:23.90]Sketch the trees and the daffodils [00:28.85]Catch the breeze and the winter chills [00:32.74]In colors on the snowy linen land [00:39.21]Now I understand [00:43.84]What you tried to say to me [00:48.39]And how you suffered for your sanity [00:53.51]And how you tried to set them free [00:56.70]They would not listen; they did not know how [01:02.34]Perhaps they'll listen now [01:05.35] [01:07.85]Starry, starry night [01:12.77]Flaming flowers that brightly blaze [01:17.56]Swirling clouds in violet haze [01:21.41]Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue [01:25.77]Colors changing hue [01:30.04]Morning fields of amber grain [01:35.42]Weathered faces lined in pain [01:39.80]Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand [01:43.04] [01:44.67]Now I understand [01:49.23]What you tried to say to me [01:53.41]And how you suffered for your sanity [01:58.42]And how you tried to set them free [02:01.34]They would not listen; they did not know how [02:07.05]Perhaps they'll listen now [02:10.15] [02:10.91]For they could not love you [02:14.46]But still, your love was true [02:19.59]And when no hope was left inside [02:23.10]On that starry, starry night [02:26.37]You took your life as lovers often do [02:31.73]But I could've told you, Vincent [02:35.82]This world was never meant For one as beautiful as you [02:40.83] [02:44.78]Starry, starry night [02:49.90]Portraits hung in empty halls [02:54.82]Frameless heads on nameless walls [02:58.70]With eyes that watch the world and can't forget [03:02.39]Like the strangers that you've met [03:06.89]The ragged men in ragged clothes [03:11.77]The silver thorn, a bloody rose [03:15.96]Lie crushed and broken on the