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Sat 25 Aug, 2007 04:53 pm
Starry, starry night
Paint your pallet 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
Reflecting 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 hands
And now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
Perhaps they'll listen now
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
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 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
"Vincent" a.k.a. "Starry Starry Night"
by-
Don McLean
@Pythagorean,
I love that song...so peaceful.
@Aristoddler,
Here, I have found a link to Don McLean singing this song live. You can listen to the song and read along!!
http://www.don-mclean.com/downloads/play.asp?p=111
Perhaps they'll listen now
Don McLean wrote Vincent in 1971 after reading a book about the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh. In the 1970s, the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam played the song daily and a copy of the sheet music, together with a set of Van Gogh's paint brushes, is buried in a time capsule beneath the museum.
And here is a link to the oh so beautiful painting by Vincent van Gogh that the song is mentioning. The painting is entitled, "The Starry Night" -:
http://www.lip.pt/~catarina/starry-night.jpg
I love the great swirls of that Starry Night ...and now I understand..
Don McLean page link:
Don McLean's Vincent (Starry Starry Night)
Yours Truly,
--Pyth