Don McLean - Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) Lyrics

Lyrics Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) - Don McLean



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
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
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
For they could not love you
Still, your love was true
And when no hope is 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
Starry Starry nights
Portraits hang in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged man in ragged clothes
A 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 would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will



Writer(s): Don Mclean


Don McLean - Favorites & Rarities
Album Favorites & Rarities
date of release
25-08-1992

1 Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)
2 Crying In the Chapel
3 Black Sheep Boy
4 And I Love You So
5 You Can't Blame the Train
6 Castles In the Air (Millenium Version)
7 Aftermath
8 Mother Nature
9 That's All Right
10 Fool's Paradise - Single version
11 Sitting On Top of the World
12 La La Love You
13 Wonderful Baby
14 Magdalene Lane
15 Crying
16 He's Got You
17 Superman's Ghost
18 Good Old Wagon
19 Milkman's Matinee
20 Every Day (BBC Version)
21 Profiteering Blues
22 Hit Parade of Love
23 The Carnival Is Ended
24 I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome (I'm Blue and Lonesome Too)
25 Nature Boy
26 Mountains of Mourne (Live In England)
27 And Her Mother Came Too (Live In England)
28 Yonkers Girl (Live In England)
29 Turkey In The Straw
30 Dubuque
31 Sally Ann / Muleskinner Blues / Old Joe Clark (Live At The Bottom Line)
32 If We Try (1978 Version)
33 Perfect Love
34 Little Child
35 Gotta Make You Mine




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