Don McLean – Vincent (Guitar)

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Starry, starry  night,       paint your palette blue and grey

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Look out on a summer's day, with eyes that know the darkness in my soul

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Shadows on the hills,       Sketch the trees and daffodils

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Catch the breeze and winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land

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And now I understand  what you tried to say to me,

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How you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free,

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They would not listen, they did not know how,  perhaps they'll listen now

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Starry, starry  night,       flaming flowers that brightly blaze,

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Swirling clouds in violet haze reflecting Vincent's eyes of china blue

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Colors changing hue,       Morning fields of amber grain

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Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

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And now I understand  what you tried to say to me,

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How you suffered for your sanity,  how you tried to set them free,

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They would not listen, they did not know how,  perhaps they'll listen now

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For they could not love you,  but still your love was true

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And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night,

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You took your life as lovers often do

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But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was

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Never meant for one as beautiful as you

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Starry, starry  night,       portraits hung in empty halls,

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Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can't forget

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Like the strangers that you've met        The ragged men in ragged clothes

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The silver thorn of bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

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And now I think I know  what you tried to say to me,

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How you suffered for your sanity,  how you tried to set them free,

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They would not listen, they're not listening still, perhaps they never will