[Strophe]
                 B 
Starry, starry night 
                   C#m 
Paint your palette blue and grey 
                E 
Look out on a summer's day 
     F#                                  B 
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul 
E              B       E 
Shadows on the hills 
B                         C#m 
Sketch the trees and the daffodils 
C#m                       E 
Catch the breeze and the winter chills 
    F#                         B  E B 
In colors on the snowy linen land
[Refrain]
       C#m 
Now I understand 
F#                 B     G#m 
What you tried to say to me 
G#m                           C#m 
And how you suffered for your sanity 
F#                          G#m 
How you tried to set them free 
                                 C#m 
They would not listen, they did not know how 
   B                   E    B 
Perhaps they'll listen now
[Strophe]
                B   E 
Starry, starry night 
B                 C#m 
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze 
C#m                    E 
Swirling clouds in a violet haze 
F#                                   B 
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue 
E                 B  E B 
Colors changing hue 
B                  C#m 
Morning fields of amber grain 
C#m               E 
Weathered faces lined in pain 
     F#                           B 
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
[Refrain]
       C#m 
Now I understand 
F#                 B  F#     G#m 
What you tried to say to me 
G#m                           C#m 
And how you suffered for your sanity 
F#                          G#m 
How you tried to set them free 
                                 C#m 
They would not listen, they did not know how 
   B                    B 
Perhaps they'll listen now
[Pont]
                    C#m 
For they could not love you 
     F#                  B    G#m 
But still your love was true 
G#m          C#m 
And when no hope was left in sight 
          E 
On that starry, starry night 
B              F#                    G#m 
You took your life, as lovers often do 
                C#m 
But I could've told you, Vincent 
      E                            F#    B          B   E B 
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
[Strophe]
B                   E B 
Starry, starry night 
B                  C#m 
Portraits hung in empty halls 
C#m                  E 
Frameless heads on nameless walls 
F#                                          B 
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget 
          E                    B    E B 
Like the strangers that you've met 
B                   C#m 
The ragged men in ragged clothes 
C#m                       E 
The silver thorn on the bloody rose 
      F#                         B     E   B 
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
[Outro]
B              C#m 
Now I think I know 
                   B  F# G#m 
What you tried to say to me 
G#m                            C#m 
And how you suffered for your sanity 
C#m                             G#m 
And how you tried to set them free 
                                    C#m 
They would not listen, they're not listening still 
                    B   F#  G#m 
Perhaps they never will
[Outro]
C#m F# B E 
B