Vincent (Starry Starry Night)

[ti:Vincent (Starry Starry Night)] [ar:The Hit Crew] [al:The Best Pop Hits of 1972, Vol. 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.94]Vincent (Starry Starry Night) - The Hit Crew [00:12.69]Starry starry night [00:18.29]Paint your palette blue and grey [00:23.76]Look out on a summer's day [00:27.66]With eyes that know the darkness in my soul [00:31.99]Shadows on the hills [00:35.68] [00:37.44]Sketch the trees and the daffodils [00:42.94]Catch the breeze and the winter chills [00:47.05]In colors on the snowy linen land [00:53.87]Now I understand [00:59.44]What you tried to say to me [01:04.68]How you suffered for your sanity [01:10.51]How you tried to set them free [01:12.92]They would not listen they did not know how [01:18.73]Perhaps they'll listen now [01:24.33]Starry starry night [01:29.86]Flaming flowers that brightly blaze [01:35.21]Swirling clouds in violet haze [01:39.36]Reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue [01:43.77]Colors changing hue [01:48.84]Morning fields of amber grain [01:54.68]Weathered faces lined in pain [01:58.69]Are smoothed beneath the artist's loving hand [02:05.78]Now I understand [02:11.23]What you tried to say to me [02:16.51]How you suffered for your sanity [02:21.87]How you tried to set them free [02:24.75]They would not listen they did not know how [02:30.35]Perhaps they'll listen now [02:33.16]For they could not love you [02:38.79]But still your love was true [02:43.71]And when no hope was left in sight on that [02:48.49]Starry starry night [02:50.86]You took your life as lovers often do [02:56.78]But I could have told you Vincent [03:01.37]This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you [03:14.04] [03:30.50]Like the stranger that you've met [03:36.32]The ragged men in ragged clothes [03:41.85]The silver thorn of bloddy rose [03:45.95]Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow [03:50.43]Now I think I know [03:56.11]What you tried to say to me [04:00.98]How you suffered for your sanity [04:06.52]How you tried to set them free [04:09.05]They would not listen they're not listening still [04:15.03]Perhaps they never will