Vicent

1.   Starry starry night paint your palette blue and gray     look out on a summer’s day     with eyes that know the darkness in my soul. 2. Shadows on the hills sketch the trees and the daffodils     catch the breeze and the winter chills     in colors on the snowy linen land.    Now I understand       what you tried to say to me how you suffered for your sanity    how you tried to set them free.   They would not listen they did not know how. perhaps they’ll listen now .   3. Starry starry night flaming flowers that brightly blaze     swirling clouds in violet haze     reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china blue. 4. Colors changing hue morning fields of amber grain     weathered faces lined in pain     are soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand. + REFR.     For they could not love you     but still your love was true          and when no hope was left inside on that starry starry night        you took your life as lovers often do     but I could have told you Vincent     this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.                        D                       Em 5. Starry starry night portraits hung in empty halls     frameless heads on nameless walls     with eyes that watch the world and can’t forget. 6. Like the strangers that you’ve met the ragged men in ragged clothes     the silver thorn of bloody rose     lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.        Now I think I know        what you tried to say to me     how you suffered for your sanity   how you tried to set them free.     They did not listen they’re not listening still perhaps they never will.