[00:12.05]Starry starry night[00:17.97]paint your palette blue and grey[00:23.34]look out on a summer's day[00:27.09]with eyes that know the darkness in my soul.[00:31.83]Shadows on the hills[00:39.12]sketch the trees and the daffodils[00:43.22]catch the breeze and the winter chills[00:46.92]in colors on the snowy linen land[00:54.52]And now I understand[01:00.18]what you tried to say to me[01:07.08]and how you suffered for your sanity[01:10.54]and how you tried to set them free.[01:13.70]They would not listen they did not know how[01:20.07]perhaps they'll listen now.[01:25.73]Starry starry night[01:31.45]flaming flowers that brightly blaze[01:36.61]swirling clouds in violet haze[01:40.81]reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.[01:44.97]Colors changing hue[01:50.83]morning fields of amber grain[01:56.44]weathered faces lined in pain[02:00.35]are sooth beneath the artist's loving hand.[02:07.91]now I understand[02:13.44]what you tried to say to me[02:18.36]and how you suffered for your sanity[02:22.87]and how you tried to set them free.[02:26.97]They would not listen they did not know how[02:32.95]perhaps they'll listen now.[02:36.15]For they could not love you[02:41.78]but still your love was true[02:46.39]and when no hope was left in sight on that[02:51.40]starry starry night.[02:55.00]You took your life as lovers often do,[02:59.97]But I could have told you Vincent[03:04.18]this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.[03:35.99]Like the stranger that you've met[03:41.35]the ragged men in ragged clothes[03:46.86]the silver thorn of bloody rose[03:51.01]lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.[03:55.73]And now I think I know[04:01.49]what you tried to say to me[04:06.51]and how you suffered for your sanity[04:11.32]and how you tried to set them free.[04:14.43]They would not listen they're not listening still[04:20.88]perhaps they never will.