[ti:vincent] [ar:Don Mclain] [al:] [offset:500] [00:00.73]Starry, starry night [00:04.97]Paint your palette blue and gray [00:09.82]Look out on a summers day [00:13.18]With eyes that know the darkness in my soul [00:17.43]Shadows on the hills [00:21.93]Sketch the trees and the daffodils [00:26.84]Catch the breeze and the winter chills [00:30.72]In colors on the snowy linen land [00:34.45] [00:37.04]Now I understand [00:41.56]What you tried to say to me [00:46.28]How you suffered for your sanity [00:51.41]How you tried to set them free [00:54.25]They would not listen they did not know how [00:59.94]Perhaps theyll listen now [01:05.15] [01:05.67]Starry, starry night [01:10.30]Flaming flowers that brightly blaze [01:15.26]Swirling clouds in violet haze [01:19.14]Reflect in Vincents eyes of china blue [01:23.51]Colors changing hue [01:28.36]Morning fields of amber grain [01:33.01]Weathered faces lined in pain [01:37.31]Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand [01:41.71] [01:42.46]Now I understand [01:46.94]What you tried to say to me [01:51.45]How you suffered for your sanity [01:56.07]How you tried to set them free [01:59.23]They would not listen they did not know how [02:04.58]Perhaps theyll listen now [02:07.13] [02:07.68]For they could not love you [02:12.26]But still your love was true [02:17.01]And when no hope was left inside [02:20.83]On that starry, starry night [02:23.82]You took your life as lovers often do [02:29.34]But I could have told you Vincent [02:33.21]This world was never meant for one as [02:36.33]beautiful as you [02:40.94] [02:42.54]Starry, starry night [02:47.56]Portraits hung in empty halls [02:52.21]Frameless heads on nameless walls [02:56.29]With eyes that watch the world and cant forget [02:59.96]Like the strangers that youve met [03:04.83]The ragged men in ragged clothes [03:09.42]The silver thorn of bloody rose [03:13.54]Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow [03:18.63]Now I think I know [03:24.23]What you tried to say to me [03:28.50