Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land Now I understand what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry, starry night Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue Colors changing hue Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand Now I understand what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
For they could not love you But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do But I could have told you, Vincent This world was never meant For one as beautiful as you
Starry, starry night Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls With eyes that watch the world and can't forget Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes A silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow Now I think I know what you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free They would not listen, they're not listening still Perhaps they never will (sing365)
The words and imagery of this song represent the life, work, and death of Vincent Van Gogh. A Starry Night is one of the Dutch impressionist's most famous paintings.The lyrics, "Paint your palette blue and gray" reflect the prominent colors of the painting, and are probably a reference to Vincent's habit of sucking on or biting his paintbrushes while he worked. The "ragged men in ragged clothes" and "how you tried to set them free" refer to Van Gogh's humanitarian activities and love of the socially outcast as also reflected in his paintings and drawings. "They would not listen/They did not know how" refers to Van Gogh's family and some associates who were critical of his kindness to "the wretched." (songfacts)
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