Intro 
C D Am C 
D 
G G Am G 
G Am Am Am 
Am C C Em 
D G Am G 

verse 1 
                G 
Starry, starry night 
                   Am 
Paint your palette blue and gray 
                C 
Look out on a summer's day 
     D                                  G 
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul 
                G    Am 
Shadows on the hills 
G                         Am 
Sketch the trees and the daffodils 
                           C 
Catch the breeze and the winter chills 
   D                           G  Am G 
In colors on the snowy linen land 


[Refrão]
 
G           Am 
Now I understand 
D                  G      D 
What you tried to say to me 
Em                              Am 
And how you suffered for your sanity 
D                              Em 
And how you tried to set them free 
                                      A       C 
They would not listen, they did not know how 
 D                       G Am G 
Perhaps they'll listen now 

verse 2 
G               G   Am 
Starry, starry night 
G                      Am           Bm 
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze 
Am                      C 
Swirling clouds in a violet haze 
   D                                 G 
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue 
                 Am G 
Colors changing hue 
                    Am 
Morning fields of amber grain 
                  C 
Weathered faces lined in pain 
     D                                   G   Am  G 
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand 


[Refrão]

G           Am   C 
Now I understand 
D                  G     D 
What you tried to say to me 
Em                             Am 
And how you suffered for your sanity 
D                              Em 
And how you tried to set them free 
                                 Am          C 
They would not listen, they did not know how 
D                       G   Am G 
Perhaps they'll listen now 

Instrumental 
G Am G 
Am D Am 
Am C C D 
F#m G Am G 

Bridge 
                    Am      C 
For they could not love you 
D                       G     D Em 
But still your love was true 
             Am 
And when no hope was left in sight 
          Cm 
On that starry, starry night 
     G                              Em 
You took your life, as lovers often do 
               Am 
But I could've told you, Vincent 
      C                                D            G  Am G 
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you 

verse 3 
G                    Am 
Starry, starry night 
 G                 Am 
Portraits hung in empty halls 
Am                    C 
Frameless heads on nameless walls 
      D                                    G 
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget 
G                               Am  G 
Like the strangers that you've met 
     G               Am 
The ragged men in ragged clothes 
                         C 
The silver thorn on the bloody rose 
       D                              G   Am G 
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow 

Outro 
G           Am     C 
Now I think I know 
D                  G      D Bm 
What you tried to say to me 
Em                              Am 
And how you suffered for your sanity 
D                              Em 
And how you tried to set them free 
                                    A 
They would not listen, they're not listening still 
C        D          G   Am G 
Perhaps they never will