Vincent         
Don McLean

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Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and gray
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Look out on a summer’s day with eyes that know the darkness of my soul
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Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and daffodils 
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Catch the breeze and winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land

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	Now I understand    what you tried to say     to      me
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	How you suffered for your sanity        How you tried to set them free
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	They did not listen they did not know how
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	Perhaps they’ll listen now

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Starry starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze
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Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent’s eyes of China blue
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Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain
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Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed ‘neath the artist’s loving hand

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	Now I understand      what you tried to say     to       me
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And how you suffered for your sanity        How you tried to set them free 
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They would not listen they did not know how
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Perhaps they’ll listen now

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For they could not love you, but your love was true
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And when no hope was left in sight on that starry starry night
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You took your life as lovers often do

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But I could have told you, Vincent,
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This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

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Starry starry night, portraits hung in empty halls
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Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
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Like the strangers that you’ve met, the ragged man in ragged clothes
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The silver thorn of bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

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	Now I think I know what you tried to say    to       me
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And how you suffered for you sanity        How you tried to set them free
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The would not listen they’re not listening still
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Perhaps they never will