Passenger – Vincent (Guitar)

Capo 4 Video Lesson
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Chords

I can't find a live version of this one posted, but it sounds like this is the way Passenger is playing it, The C/B and G/B chords are walkdown chords from C to Am. [Chords] C/B x2001x
Fsus2  1x3011
Fsus2* xx3011 (pick only the top 4 strings)
G6sus4 3x001x G/B X2003x G5 3x003x [Verse 1]
                C   Fsus2* C
Starry, starry night

                   Dm
Paint your palette blue and grey

                Fsus2
Look out on a summer's day

      G6sus4                            C
With eyes that know the darkness of my soul

Fsus2           C  Fsus2* C
Shadows on the hill

                         Dm
Sketch the trees and the daffodils

                          Fsus2
Catch the breeze and the winter chills

     G                          C
In colors on the snowy linen land
[Chorus]
            Dm   G                   C        C/B Am7
Now I understand - what you tried to say to me

                           Dm    G
How you suffered for your sanity

                          Am7
How you tried to set them free

                               Dm7          Fsus2
They did not listen, they did not know how

    G                     C  Fsus2* C
Perhaps they'll listen now
[Verse 2]
               C    Fsus2* C
Starry, starry night

                 Dm
Flaming flowers brightly blaze

                    Fsus2
Swirling clouds in violet haze

    G6sus4                             C
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

           Fsus2          C  Fsus2* C
And the colors changing hue

                  Dm
Morning fields of amber grain

                 Fsus2
Weathered faces lined in pain

     G                                  C
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
[Chorus]
C          Dm    G                   C        C/B Am7
Now I understand - what you tried to say to me

                           Dm    G
How you suffered for your sanity

                          Am7
How you tried to set them free

                               D           Fsus2
They did not listen, they did not know how

   G                      C
Perhaps they'll listen now
[Bridge]
                    Dm     G
For they could not love you

                    C   G/B Am G6sus4
Still your love was true

             F
And when no hope was left in sight

         Fm
On that starry, starry night

     C                  C/B           Am7
You took your life, as lovers often do

     Dm
But I could have told you, Vincent

      Fsus2                           G               C  Fsus2* C
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
[Verse 3]
               C    Fsus2* C
Starry, starry night

                   Dm
Portraits hung in empty halls

                    Fsus2
Frameless heads on nameless walls

     G6sus4                                C
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

             Fsus2              C  Fsus2* C
Like the strangers that you've met

                     Dm
Oh the ragged men in ragged clothes

                          Fsus2
And the silver thorn of a bloody rose

     G5                                 C
Lies crushed and broken on the virgin snow
[Outro]
                Dm     G                   C      C/B Am7
And now I think I know - what you tried to say to me

                           Dm    G
How you suffered for your sanity

                               Am7
And how you tried to set them free

                               D                Fsus2
They did not listen, they're not listening still

    G                     C
Perhaps they never will