Vincent by Don McLean
[Verse 1]
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Starry, starry night, paint your palette blue and grey
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Look out on a summer's day, with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
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Shadows on the hills, Sketch the trees and daffodils
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Catch the breeze and winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land
[Chorus]
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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
[Verse 2]
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Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
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Swirling clouds in violet haze reflecting Vincent's eyes of china blue
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Colors changing hue, Morning fields of amber grain
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Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
[Chorus]
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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
[Bridge]
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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
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But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was
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Never meant for one as beautiful as you
[Verse 3]
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Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls,
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Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes 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 of bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
[Chorus]
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And now I think I know 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