Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889
oil on canvas 28x36"  Metropolitan New York

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)  Lyrics and Music by Don McLean Starry, starry night  Paint your palette blue and gray  Look out on a summer's day  With eyes that know the darkness in my soul  Shadows on the hills  Sketch the trees and daffodils  Catch the breeze and winter chills  In colors on the snowy linen land	Landscape with Snow 1888
Now I understand  What you tried to say to me  And how you suffered for your sanity  And how you tried to set them free  They would not listen, they did not know how  Perhaps they'll listen now	Sower c1880
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 fields of amber grain  Weathered faces lined in pain  Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand	Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait1889
Now I understand  What you tried to say to me  They did not listen, they did not know how  Perhaps they'll listen now  Starry, starry night	Potato Eaters c1885
For they could not love you  But still your love was true  And when no hope was left inside  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 heads on nameless walls  With eyes that watch the world and can't forget	Portrait of Dr. Gachet c1890
Like the strangers that you've met  The ragged men in ragged clothes  The silver thorn of bloody rose  Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow	Room in Arles 1889 (Holland Version)
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 did not listen they're not listening still Perhaps they never will...	Cemetary in the Snow 1885