[00:00.000]Starry starry night
[00:04.670]paint your palette blue and grey
[00:09.620]look out on a summer's day
[00:12.810]with eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
[00:17.040]Shadows on the hills
[00:21.410]sketch the trees and the daffodils
[00:26.440]catch the breeze and the winter chills
[00:30.230]in colors on the snowy linen land.
[00:36.720]And now I understand
[00:41.210]what you tried to say to me
[00:45.940]and how you suffered for your sanity
[00:50.770]and how you tried to set them free.
[00:53.820]They would not listen they did not know how
[00:59.320]perhaps they'll listen now.
[01:04.990]Starry starry night
[01:09.640]flaming flowers that brightly blaze
[01:14.880]swirling clouds in violet haze
[01:18.550]reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue.
[01:22.910]Colors changing hue
[01:27.410]morning fields of amber grain
[01:32.620]weathered faces lined in pain
[01:36.720]are smoothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
[01:40.990]And now I understand
[01:45.840]what you tried to say to me
[01:49.710]and how you suffered for your sanity
[01:55.040]and how you tried to set them free.
[01:57.810]They would not listen they did not know how
[02:03.140]perhaps they'll listen now.
[02:06.650]For they could not love you
[02:10.960]but still your love was true
[02:15.780]and when no hope was left in sight on that
[02:20.160]starry starry night.
[02:22.640]You took your life as lovers often do'
[02:27.720]But I could have told you Vincent
[02:31.820]this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
[02:41.130]Starry starry night
[02:45.770]portraits hung in empty halls
[02:50.890]frameless heads on nameless walls
[02:54.700]with eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
[02:58.580]Like the stranger that you've met
[03:03.340]the ragged men in ragged clothes
[03:07.880]the silver thorn of bloddy rose
[03:11.380]lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.
[03:16.820]And now I think I know
[03:21.770]what you tried to say to me
[03:26.310]and how you suffered for your sanity
[03:31.870]and how you tried to set them free.
[03:34.690]They would not listen they're not listening still
[03:40.680]perhaps they never will.