[00:01.000]Starry starry night[00:05.170]paint your palette blue and grey[00:10.120]look out on a summer's day[00:13.910]with eyes that see the darkness in my soul.[00:20.840]Shadows on the hills[00:25.810]sketch the trees and the daffodils[00:30.840]catch the breeze and the winter chills[00:34.630]in colors on the snowy linen land.[00:41.120]now I understand[00:45.610]what you tried to say to me[00:50.340]how you suffered for your sanity[00:55.170]and how you tried to set them free.[00:58.220]They would not listen they did not know how[01:03.720]perhaps they'll listen now.[01:09.390]Starry starry night[01:14.040]flaming flowers that brightly blaze[01:19.280]swirling clouds in violet haze[01:24.150]reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.[01:28.810]Colors changing hue[01:33.610]morning fields of amber grain[01:38.820]weathered faces lined in pain[01:43.520]are smoothed beneath the artist's loving hand.[01:47.790]And now I understand[01:52.940]what you tried to say to me[01:56.810]and how you suffered for your sanity[02:02.440]how you tried to set them free.[02:05.210]They would not listen they did not know how[02:13.240]perhaps they'll listen now.[02:17.350]For they could not love you[02:22.560]but still your love was true[02:27.980]and when no hope was left in sight on that[02:32.660]starry starry night.[02:35.140]You took your life as lovers often do,[02:40.220]But I could have told you Vincent[02:46.720]this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.[02:56.030]Starry starry night[03:00.670]portraits hung in empty halls[03:05.790]frameless heads on nameless walls[03:11.100]with eyes that see the world and can't forget.[03:15.580]Like the stranger that you've met[03:20.340]the ragged men in ragged clothes[03:26.380]the silver thorn of bloody rose[03:29.880]lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.[03:35.320]And now I think I know[03:40.270]what you tried to say to me[03:44.810]and how you suffered for your sanity[03:50.370]and how you tried to set them free.[03:53.190]They would not listen they're not listening still[03:59.180]perhaps they never will.[04:09.530]