They would not listen, they're not listening still.

[Mind_your_head]

Perhaps they never will...

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Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and grey,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land.

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.

Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

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.

For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

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...

Artist: Don McLean

[Mind_your_head]

1. Did you know? Vincent's starry starry night:

[Raksha]

2. A wonderful song, one of my old favorites.

I no longer have the album, but I used to listen to it over and over. I believe it was on the "American Pie" album, right? Thank you for reminding me.

[Mind_your_head]

4. It's sort of a depressing song/album.....I didn't really understand it

very well at the time, but NOW it seems to make such perfect sense (I'll admit to being at the back-end of the bell curve.....so much to learn, so little time!)

http://www.rareexception.com/Garden/Pie.php

[upi402]

3. melancholy n/t

[SeattleGirl]

5. One of my favorite songs

Sweet and sad at the same time.

[johnaries]

6. Some of the greatest poetry in music.

I can't listen to it in public - I break down in tears. And we guys aren't supposed to cry.

[OneBlueSky]

7. Don is indeed a wonderful poet . . . and one of the greatest . . .

love song writers of the 20th century . . . "And I Love You So" is a classic . . .