Passenger – Vincent (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
E
Starry, starry night

F#m
Paint your palette blue and grey

                A
Look out on a summer's day

        B                   E
With eyes that know the darkness of my soul

A                E
Shadows on the hill

                         F#m
Sketch the trees and the daffodils

                          A
Catch the breeze and the winter chills

     B
In colors on the snowy linen land
[Chorus]
E       F#m      B                   E        B C#m
Now I understand what you tried to say to me

                             F#m B
How you suffered for your sanity

                          C#m
How you tried to set them free

                               F#m          A
They did not listen, they did not know how

B                          E
Perhaps they'll listen now
[Verse 2]
E
Starry, starry night

                 F#m
Flaming flowers brightly blaze

                       A
Swirling clouds in violet haze

B                             E
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

           A              E
And the colors changing hue

          F#m
Morning fields of amber grain

                 A
Weathered faces lined in pain

     B                                  E
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
[Chorus]
E       F#m      B                   E        B C#m
Now I understand what you tried to say to me

                             F#m B
How you suffered for your sanity

                          C#m
How you tried to set them free

                               F#m          A
They did not listen, they did not know how

B                          E
Perhaps they'll listen now
[Bridge]
                    F#m
For they could not love you

 B                  E     B C#m
Still your love was true

             A
How when no hope was left in sight

Am
On that starry, starry night

     E                                 C#m
You took your life, as lovers often do

       F#m
But I could have told you, Vincent

A                                                    E
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
[Verse 3]
  E
Starry, starry night

                     F#m
Portraits hung in empty halls

                    D          A B
Frameless head on nameless walls

                                           E    A
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

             A                  E
Like the strangers that you've met

                          F#m
Oh the ragged men in the ragged clothes

                           F#m A
And the silver thorn of bloody rose

     E            B                     E
Lies crushed and broken on the virgin snow
[Outro]
E       F#m      B                   E        B C#m
Now I understand what you tried to say to me

                             F#m B
How you suffered for your sanity

                          C#m
How you tried to set them free

                               F#m          A
They did not listen, they did not know how

B                          E
Perhaps they'll listen now