[00:00.000]Starry starry night[00:04.670]paint your palette blue and grey[00:09.620]look out on a summer's day[00:12.810]with eyes that know the darkness in my soul.[00:17.040]Shadows on the hills[00:21.410]sketch the trees and the daffodils[00:26.440]catch the breeze and the winter chills[00:30.230]in colors on the snowy linen land.[00:36.720]And now I understand[00:41.210]what you tried to say to me[00:45.940]and how you suffered for your sanity[00:50.770]and how you tried to set them free.[00:53.820]They would not listen they did not know how[00:59.320]perhaps they'll listen now.[01:04.990]Starry starry night[01:09.640]flaming flowers that brightly blaze[01:14.880]swirling clouds in violet haze[01:18.550]reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue.[01:22.910]Colors changing hue[01:27.410]morning fields of amber grain[01:32.620]weathered faces lined in pain[01:36.720]are smoothed beneath the artist's loving hand.[01:40.990]And now I understand[01:45.840]what you tried to say to me[01:49.710]and how you suffered for your sanity[01:55.040]and how you tried to set them free.[01:57.810]They would not listen they did not know how[02:03.140]perhaps they'll listen now.[02:06.650]For they could not love you[02:10.960]but still your love was true[02:15.780]and when no hope was left in sight on that[02:20.160]starry starry night.[02:22.640]You took your life as lovers often do'[02:27.720]But I could have told you Vincent[02:31.820]this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.[02:41.130]Starry starry night[02:45.770]portraits hung in empty halls[02:50.890]frameless heads on nameless walls[02:54.700]with eyes that watch the world and can't forget.[02:58.580]Like the stranger that you've met[03:03.340]the ragged men in ragged clothes[03:07.880]the silver thorn of bloddy rose[03:11.380]lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.[03:16.820]And now I think I know[03:21.770]what you tried to say to me[03:26.310]and how you suffered for your sanity[03:31.870]and how you tried to set them free.[03:34.690]They would not listen they're not listening still[03:40.680]perhaps they never will.