[Intro] D  E  G  A

            D   D
Starry, starry night
                   Em
Paint your palette blue and gray
            G
Look out on a summer's day
A                                      D
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
                     D   D
Shadows on the hills
                     Em
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
                         G
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
    A                           D
In colors on the snowy linen land
           Em      G
Now I understand
                 D  C#    Bm
What you tried to say, to me
                              Em
And how you suffered for your sanity
                                  Bm
And how you tried to set them free
                                         Em
They would not listen; they did not know how
G                        D
Perhaps they'll listen now

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              D
Starry, Starry night
                   Em
Portraits hung in empty halls
                    G
Frameless heads on nameless walls
      A                                    D
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

                                D  D
Like the strangers that you've met
                           Em
The ragged men in ragged clothes
                     G
The silver thorn, a bloody rose
A                                     D
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
                Em  G
Now I think I know
                   D  C#   Bm
What you tried to say, to me
                                 Em
And how you suffered for your sanity
                              Bm
And how you tried to set them free
                                             Em
They would not listen; they're not listening still
G                     D
Perhaps they never will
                   Em         A
For they could not love you
                        D     Bm
But still, your love was true
               E
And when no hope was left inside
         G
On that starry, starry night
    D                  C           B7
You took your life as lovers often do
        E
But I could've told you, Vincent
  G
This world was never meant
        A                D
For one as beautiful as you

[Final] D  E  G  A