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Chords in this song18
Intro
Verse 1
Starry, starry night,
Paint your palette blue and grey.
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 colours on the snowy linen land.
Interlude 1
Chorus 1
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?
Interlude 2
GM7(no5) G6(no5) G5
Verse 2
Starry, starry night,
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Colours changing hue,
Morning fields of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Chorus 1
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.
Bridge
For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
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.
Interlude 3
Verse 3
Starry, starry night,
Portraits hung 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 men in ragged clothes,
The silver thorn, the bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.
Chorus 2
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.
Outro
G G6(no5) G Gadd9 G
CHORD DIAGRAM
Intro
G 3x0003
Gsus4 3x0013
Verse
G 3x0003
Gsus4 3x0013
Am x02210
Asus2 x02200
Am/C x32210
Asus2/C x32200
D7 xx0212
Interlude 1
Gsus4 3x001x
G5 3x003x
G(*2) 3x000x
G(*3) 3200xx
Chorus
G 3x0003
Am x02210
Asus2 x02200
D7 xx0212
G/F# 2x0003
Em 0x2000
Am7 x02010
A7 x02020
Interlude 2
GM7(no5) 3xx002
G6(no5) 3xx000
G5 3x003x
Bridge
G 3x0003
Am x02210
Asus4 x02230
D7 xx0212
G/F# 2x0003
Em 0x2000
Am7 x02010
Cm x35543
F6#11 13020x
E7 02010x
C x32010
Am7 x02010
D7 xx0212
G 3x0003
Interlude 3
Gsus4 3x001x
G5 3x003x
G(*2) 3x000x
G(*3) 3200xx
Outro
Gsus4 3x0013
G 3x0003
G(*3) 3200xx
G6(no5) 3220xx
Gadd9 3202xx
G(*2) 3x000x
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