Vincent Chords

[Verse 1]
               G
Starry, starry night, paint your palette
Am                           C
Blue and grey, look out on a summer's day, 
D7                                     G
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
               G
Shadows on the hills, 
                     Am
Sketch the trees and daffodils
                         C
Catch the breeze and the winter chills 
   D7                         G
In colours on the snowy linen land
 
[Chorus]
               Am   D7
And now I understand   what you tried to 
G    D/F# Em                           Am      D7
Say to me,    how you suffered for your sanity
                          Em
How you tried to set them free, 
                                A7
They would not listen, they did not know how
   D7                  G
Perhaps they'll listen now
 
[Verse 2]
               G
Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that
Am                                 C
Brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze
D7                                 G
Reflect in Vincent’s eyes of China Blue
                 G
Colours changing hue, 
                  Am
Morning fields of amber grain
                C
Weathered faces lined with pain 
    D                                  G
Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand
 
[Chorus]
               Am   D7
And now I understand   what you tried to 
G    D/F# Em                           Am      D7
Say to me,    how you suffered for your sanity
                          Em
How you tried to set them free, 
                                A7
They would not listen, they did not know how
   D7                  G
Perhaps they'll listen now
 
[Bridge]
                   Am        D7
For they could not love you,
                        G   D/F# Em
But still your love was true
            Am
And when no hope was left in sight 
        Cm
On that starry, starry night
    G                 F            E7
You took your life as lovers often do
    Am                                   CM7
But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was 
                       D            G
Never meant for one as beautiful as you
 
[Verse 3]
               G                        Am
Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls
                   C
Frameless heads on nameless walls
     D7                                     G
With eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
                               G
Like the strangers that you’ve met
                  Am
The ragged men in ragged clothes 
                    C
The silver thorn, a bloody rose
    D7                               G
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
 
[Final Chorus]
              Am   D7
Now I think I know,  what you tried to 
G    D/F# Em                               Am      D7
Say to me,   and how you suffered for your sanity
                              Em
And how you tried to set them free, 
                                   A7
They would not listen, they're not listening still
   D7              G
Perhaps they never will
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