Vincent Lyrics - Justin Hayward

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 

And 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 

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 

And 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 

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 

Starry, starry night 

Portraits hang in empty halls 

Frame less heads on nameless walls 

With eyes that watch the world and can't forget 

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 

And 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