Vincent

Song Vincent
Artist Charlie Landsborough
Album Love, In A Song

Lyrics

[00:01.000] Starry starry night
[00:05.170] paint your palette blue and grey
[00:10.120] look out on a summer's day
[00:13.910] with eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
[00:20.840] Shadows on the hills
[00:25.810] sketch the trees and the daffodils
[00:30.840] catch the breeze and the winter chills
[00:34.630] in colors on the snowy linen land.
[00:41.120] And now I understand
[00:45.610] what you tried to say to me
[00:50.340] and how you suffered for your sanity
[00:55.170] and how you tried to set them free.
[00:58.220] They would not listen they did not know how
[01:03.720] perhaps they'll listen now.
[01:09.390] Starry starry night
[01:14.040] flaming flowers that brightly blaze
[01:19.280] swirling clouds in violet haze
[01:24.150] reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue.
[01:28.810] Colors changing hue
[01:33.610] morning fields of amber grain
[01:38.820] weathered faces lined in pain
[01:43.520] are smoothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
[01:47.790] And now I understand
[01:52.940] what you tried to say to me
[01:56.810] and how you suffered for your sanity
[02:02.440] and how you tried to set them free.
[02:05.210] They would not listen they did not know how
[02:13.240] perhaps they'll listen now.
[02:17.350] For they could not love you
[02:22.560] but still your love was true
[02:27.980] and when no hope was left in sight on that
[02:32.660] starry starry night.
[02:35.140] You took your life as lovers often do,
[02:40.220] But I could have told you Vincent
[02:46.720] this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
[02:56.030] Starry starry night
[03:00.670] portraits hung in empty halls
[03:05.790] frameless heads on nameless walls
[03:11.100] with eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
[03:15.580] Like the stranger that you've met
[03:20.340] the ragged men in ragged clothes
[03:26.380] the silver thorn of bloddy rose
[03:29.880] lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.
[03:35.320] And now I think I know
[03:40.270] what you tried to say to me
[03:44.810] and how you suffered for your sanity
[03:50.370] and how you tried to set them free.
[03:53.190] They would not listen they're not listening still
[03:59.180] perhaps they never will.
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