Tonart: G major
Verse 1
E
A
E
Starry, starry night
F#m
Paint your palette blue and gray
A
Look out on a summer's day
B
E
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Verse 2
E
A
E
Shadows on the hills
F#m
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
A
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
B
E
A
E
In colors on the snowy, linen land
Chorus 1
F#m
B
Now, I understand
E
G#m
what you tried to say to me
C#m
F#m
And how you suffered for your sanity
B
C#m
And how you tried to set them free
F#
They would not listen, they did not know how
F#m
B
E
Perhaps they'll listen now
Verse 3
E
A
E
Starry, starry night
F#m
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
A
Swirling clouds in violet haze
B
E
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Verse 4
E
A
E
Colors changing hue
F#m
Morning fields of amber grain
A
Weathered faces lined in pain
B
E
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Chorus 2
F#m
B
Now, I understand
E
G#m
what you tried to say to me
C#m
F#m
And how you suffered for your sanity
B
C#m
And how you tried to set them free
F#
They would not listen, they did not know how
F#m
B
E
Perhaps they'll listen now
Bridge 1
F#m
For they could not love you
B
E
G#m
But still your love was true
C#m
F#m
And when no hope was left inside
Am
On that starry, starry, night
E
D
C#
You took your life as lovers often do
F#m
But I could have told you, Vincent
A
A
This world was never meant for one
B
E
As beautiful as you
Verse 5
E
A
E
Starry, starry night
F#m
Portraits hung in empty halls
A
Frameless heads on nameless walls
B
With eyes that watch the world
E
and can't forget
Verse 6
E
A
Like the strangers that you've met
E
F#m
The ragged men in ragged clothes
A
The silver thorn of bloody rose
B
E
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Chorus 3
F#m
B
Now, I think I know
E
G#m
what you tried to say to me
C#m
F#m
And how you suffered for your sanity
B
C#m
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen,
F#
they're not listening still
F#m
B
E
Perhaps they never will
E
E
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