Vincent Chords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
               G
Starry, starry night,
                   Am       A       Am
Paint your palette blue and grey.
Am                     A
Look out on a summer's day
     D                                 G
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
G
Shadows on the hills,
G                        Am   A       Am
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Am                              A
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
   D                          G
In colours on the snowy linen land.
 
[Interlude 1]
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[Chorus 1]
G          Am    A       D
Now I understand
D                 G            Em
What you tried to say to me.
Em                        Am      D
How you suffered for your sanity
D                         Em
How you tried to set them free.
                                A            Am
They would not listen, they did not know how
   D                   G
Perhaps they'll listen now?
 
[Interlude 2]
GM7(no5)  G6(no5)  G5
 
[Verse 2]
               G
Starry, starry night,
G                    Am       A      Am
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Am                        A
Swirling clouds in violet haze
  D                                G
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue.
G
Colours changing hue,
G                 Am    A       Am
Morning fields of amber grain,
Am                       A
Weathered faces lined in pain,
    D                                   G
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
 
[Chorus 1]
G          Am    A      D
Now I understand
D                 G            Em
What you tried to say to me.
Em                        Am      D
How you suffered for your sanity
D                         Em
How you tried to set them free.
                                A              Am
They would not listen, they did not know how.
   D                   G
Perhaps they'll listen now.
 
[Bridge]
    G              Am      A      D
For they could not love you,
    D                   G          Em
But still your love was true.
            Am
And when no hope was left in sight
        Cm
On that starry, starry night,
    G                 F#611     E
You took your life as lovers often do.
                 Am
But I could have told you, Vincent,
     C               Am
This world was never meant for one
   D            G
As beautiful as you.
 
[Interlude 3]
G
 
[Verse 3]
               G
Starry, starry night,
G                 Am    A      Am
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Am                          A
Frameless heads on nameless walls,
     D                                      G
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
         G
Like the strangers that you've met,
G                 Am     A       Am
The ragged men in ragged clothes,
Am                           A
The silver thorn, the bloody rose
    D                                G
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.
 
[Chorus 2]
G             Am    A      D
Now I think I know
D                 G            Em
What you tried to say to me,
Em                        Am     D
How you suffered for your sanity,
D                         Em
How you tried to set them free.
Em
They would not listen,
            A                Am
They're not listening still,
   D               G
Perhaps they never will.
 
[Outro]
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G  G6(no5)