And how you tried to set them free
Colors changing hue
Swirling clouds in violet haze
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
But I could have told you, Vincent
Starry, starry night
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Now, I think I know what you tried to say to me
You took your life as lovers often do
But still your love was true
Morning fields of amber grain
They would not listen, they did not know how
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
And when no hope was left inside
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
This world was never meant for one
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
Portraits hung in empty halls
Now, I understand, what you tried to say to me
On that starry, starry night
Look out on a summer's day
Perhaps they'll listen now
Like the strangers that you've met
In colors on the snowy linen land
For they could not love you
Now, I understand, what you tried to say to me
Perhaps they'll listen now
The ragged men in ragged clothes
Shadows on the hills
Frame less heads on nameless walls
Starry, starry night
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
The silver thorn of bloody rose
And how you suffered for your sanity
As beautiful as you
They would not listen, they're not listening still
