Vincent-Don McLean

[ti:Vincent] [ar:Don McLean] [al:The Best Of Don McLean] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Vincent - Don McLean [00:00.19]Lyrics by：Don McLean [00:00.39]Composed by：Don McLean [00:00.59]Arranged by：Lee Hays [00:00.78]Produced by：Ed Freeman [00:00.99]Starry starry night [00:05.68]Paint your palette blue and grey [00:10.39]Look out on a summer's day [00:13.61]With eyes that know the darkness in my soul [00:17.88]Shadows on the hills [00:22.37]Sketch the trees and the daffodils [00:27.40]Catch the breeze and the winter chills [00:31.21]In colors on the snowy linen land [00:37.74]Now I understand [00:42.38]What you tried to say to me [00:46.78]How you suffered for your sanity [00:52.11]How you tried to set them free [00:55.22]They would not listen they did not know how [01:00.92]Perhaps they'll listen now [01:06.34]Starry starry night [01:11.04]Flaming flowers that brightly blaze [01:16.15]Swirling clouds in a violet haze [01:19.95]Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue [01:24.40]Colors changing hue [01:29.27]Morning fields of amber grain [01:33.89]Weathered faces lined in pain [01:38.02]Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand [01:42.88]Now I understand [01:47.64]What you tried to say to me [01:51.84]And how you suffered for your sanity [01:56.76]And how you tried to set them free [01:59.64]They would not listen they did not know how [02:05.45]Perhaps they'll listen now [02:08.50]For they could not love you [02:12.60]But still your love was true [02:17.74]And when no hope was left in sight on that [02:22.09]Starry starry night [02:24.71]You took your life as lovers often do [02:30.04]But I could've told you Vincent [02:33.88]This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you [02:43.22]Starry starry night [02:48.34]Portraits hung in empty halls [02:52.89]Frameless heads on nameless walls [02:56.93]With eyes that watch the world and can't forget [03:01.03]Like the strangers that you've met [03:05.32]The ragged men in ragged clothes [03:10.20]The silver thorn on the bloody rose [03:14.36]Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow [03:19.71]Now I think I know [03:24.92]What you tried to say to me [03:28.87]And how you suffered for your sanity [03:34.45]And how you tried to set them free [03:37.69]They would not listen they're not listening still [03:43.60]Perhaps they never will