v.1
^GStarry, starry night, paint your pallette ^Amblue and gray
Look out on a ^Csummer's day
^DWith eyes that know the darkness in my ^Gsoul
^GShadows on the hill, sketch the trees and the ^Amdaffodils
Catch the breeze and the ^Cwinter chills
In ^Dcolors on the snowy linen ^Gland

v.2
Starry starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds of violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hands

Chorus:
Now I under^Amstand ^Dwhat you tried to ^Gsay to me
[Now I think I know...]
^EmHow you suffered for your ^Amsanity
^DHow you tried to set them ^Emfree
They would not listen, they did ^Anot know how
^DPerhaps they're listening ^Gnow
Perhaps they never will...

Refrain:
For they could not ^Amlove you, ^Dbut still your love was ^Gtrue
And when no ^Amhope was left in sight on that ^Cmstarry, starry night
You ^Gtook your life as lovers often ^Emdo...
But I ^Amcould have told you Vincent
This ^Cworld was never meant for one as ^Dbeautiful as ^Gyou

v.3
Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met, the ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn on bloody rose
Lies crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Rpt. Ch.