Ellie Goulding – Vincent (Guitar)

                 B
Starry, starry night

                   C#m
Paint your palette blue and grey

                E
Look out on a summer's day

     F#                                  B
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

E              B       E
Shadows on the hills

B                         C#m
Sketch the trees and the daffodils

C#m                       E
Catch the breeze and the winter chills

    F#                         B  E B
In colors on the snowy linen land

       C#m
Now I understand

F#                 B  B/A#  G#m
What you tried to say to me

G#m                           C#m
And how you suffered for your sanity

F#                          G#m
How you tried to set them free

                       C#          C#m
They would not listen, they did not know how

F#   B                   E    B
Perhaps they'll listen now

                B   E
Starry, starry night

B                 C#m
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze

C#m                    E
Swirling clouds in a violet haze

F#                                   B
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

E                 B  E B
Colors changing hue

B                  C#m
Morning fields of amber grain

C#m               E
Weathered faces lined in pain

     F#                           B
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

       C#m
Now I understand

F#                 B  B/A#   G#m
What you tried to say to me

G#m                           C#m
And how you suffered for your sanity

F#                          G#m
How you tried to set them free

                                 C  C#m
They would not listen, they did not know how

F#             B             B
Perhaps they'll listen now

                    C#m
For they could not love you

     F#                B  B/A#  G#m
But still your love was true

G#m          C#m
And when no hope was left in sight

          E
On that starry, starry night

B              B/A#                    G#m
You took your life, as lovers often do

                C#m
But I could've told you, Vincent

      E                            F#    B          B   E B
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

B                   E B
Starry, starry night

B                  C#m
Portraits hung in empty halls

C#m                  E
Frameless heads on nameless walls

F#                                          B
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

          E                    B    E B
Like the strangers that you've met

B                   C#m
The ragged men in ragged clothes

C#m                       E
The silver thorn on the bloody rose

      F#                         B     E   B
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

B              C#m F#
Now I think I know

                   B  B/A# G#m
What you tried to say to me

G#m                            C#m
And how you suffered for your sanity

F#                             G#m
And how you tried to set them free

                                  C#  C#m
They would not listen, they're not listening still

                    B   B/A#  G#m
Perhaps they never will