[Intro]
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...

[Verse 1]
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 2]
Starry, Starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
[Verse 3]
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

[Chorus]
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

[Refrain]
For they could not love you
But still, your love was true

[Outro]
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do --
But I could've told you, Vincent:
This world was never meant
For one as beautiful as you