Key: G > E
G Am7
Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and grey
C D7 G
Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
G Am7
Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils
C D7 G Gsus4 G
Catch the breeze and the winter chills in colors on the snowy linen land
Am7 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 F#m B7
They would not listen They did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now
E (E6) F#m (F#m9)
Starry Starry night Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
A B7 E
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue
E (E6) F#m (F#m9)
Colors changing hue Morning fields of amber grain
A B7 E
Weathered faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artist's Loving hand
F#m B7 E E/Eb C#m
And now I understand what you tried to say to me
F#m B7 C#m
How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free
F# F#m B7 E
They would not listen They did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now
F#m B7 E E/Eb C#m
For they could not love you But still your love was true
F#m Am6
And when no hope was left in sight on that starry starry night
E D7 C#7
You took your life As lovers often do
F#m
But I could have told you Vincent
A B7 E
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
E (E6) F#m (F#m9)
Starry Starry night Portraits hung in empty halls
A
Frameless heads on nameless walls
B7 E
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
E (E6) F#m (F#m9)
Like the stranger that you've met The ragged men in ragged clothes
A B7 E
The silver thorn of bloody rose Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
F#m B7 E E/Eb C#m
And now I think I know what you tried to say to me
F#m B7 B7/C C#m
How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free
F# F#m B7 E (E6)
They would not listen They're not listening still Perhaps they never will