Vincent - Don McLean
 
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Starry Starry night, paint your pallete blue and grey
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Look out on a summers day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
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Shadows on hills,  sketch the tress and daffodils
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Catch the breeze and the winter chill, in colors on the snowy linen land
 
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	| And now I understand      what you tried to say to me
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	| How you suffered for your sanity     How you tried to set them free
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	| They would not listen, they did not know how,   perhaps they'll listen now.
 
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Starry starry night, flamings flowers that brightly blaze
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Swirling clouds in violet haze, reflect in Vincents eyes of china blue
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Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber graing
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Weatherd faces lined in pain, are soothed beneath the artists loving hand
 

	|                Am     D7                    G      D/F#   Em
	| And now I understand      what you tried to say to me
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	| How you suffered for your sanity     How you tried to set them free
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	| They would not listen, they did not know how,   perhaps they'll listen now.

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  For they could not love you  but still your love was true
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  And when no hope was left in sight, on that starry starry night
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  You took your life as lovers often do. --- But I could have told you Vincent
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  This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

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Starry starry night, portraits hung in empty halls
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frameless heads on nameless walls, with i's that watch the world and can't forget
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Like the strangers that you've met, the ragged men in ragged clothes
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The silver thorn the bloody rose, lire crushed and broken on the virgin snow

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	| And now I understand      what you tried to say to me
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	| How you suffered for your sanity     How you tried to set them free
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	| They would not listen, they're not listening still - perhaps they never will