Vincent (Live)-Don McLean

[00:01.153]Starry starry night [00:05.482]Paint your palette blue and gray [00:09.807]Look out on a summer's day [00:13.143]With eyes that know the darkness in my soul [00:17.215]Shadows on the hills [00:21.591]Sketch the trees and the daffodils [00:26.511]Catch the breeze and the winter chills [00:30.207]In colors on the snowy linen land [00:36.559]Now I understand what you tried to say to me [00:45.391]And how you suffered for your sanity [00:50.439]How you tried to set them free [00:53.351]They would not listen they did not know how [00:59.375]Perhaps they'll listen now [01:04.516]Starry starry night [01:08.219]Flaming flowers that brightly blaze [01:13.339]Swirling clouds in violet haze [01:17.547]Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue [01:21.579]Colors changing hue [01:26.235]Morning fields of amber grain [01:30.547]Weathered faces lined in pain [01:35.155]Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand [01:39.531]Now I understand what you tried to say to me [01:48.476]And how you suffered for your sanity [01:53.260]And how you tried to set them free [01:56.115]They would not listen they did not know how [02:01.938]Perhaps they'll listen now [02:04.810]For they could not love you [02:09.114]But still your love was true [02:13.642]And when no hope was left inside [02:17.305]On that starry starry night [02:20.474]You took your life as lovers often do [02:25.993]But I could have told you Vincent [02:29.401]This world was never meant [02:31.337]For one as beautiful as you [02:39.25]Starry starry night [02:43.841]Portraits hung in empty halls [02:48.129]Frameless heads on nameless walls [02:52.761]With eyes that watch the world and can't forget [02:56.694]Like the strangers that you've met [03:01.454]The ragged men in ragged clothes [03:06.246]A silver thorn a bloody rose [03:10.310]Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow [03:15.366]Now I think I know what you tried to say to me [03:24.698]And how you suffered for your sanity [03:30.114]And how you tried to set them free [03:33.58]They would not listen they're not listening still [03:39.84]Perhaps they never will