Vincent chords by NOFX

Verse 1:

G           C G
Starry, starry night,

G
paint your palette

Am
Blue and grey,

Am      C
Look out on a summer's day,

   D                 G
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul

G           C G
Shadows on the hills,

G            Am
Sketch the trees and the daffodills

Am            C
Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in

D             G C G
colors on the snowy linen land


Chorus:

G       Am  D
Now I under stand

          G  D  Em
what you tried to say to me

Em              Am   D
and how you suffered for your sanity

             Em
How you tried to set them free,

Em                    Am  D
they would not listen, they did not know how,

           G
Perhaps they'll listen now


Verse 2:

G         C G
Starry, starry night,

G         Am
portraits hung in empty halls

Am        C
framless 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
The ragged men in ragged clothes

Am        C
A silver thorn, a bloody rose, lie

D         D      G
Crushed and broken on the virgin snow


G         Am  D
And now I think I know,

D         G D  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                       C
They would not listen, they’re not listening still,

  D        G
Perhaps the never....will


Bridge:

Em         Am    D
For they could not love you,

D            G D Em
but still your love was true

Em     Am
And when no hope was left in sight

    C
On that starry, starry night, you

G         Am      E
took your life as lovers often do

  Am               C
But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was

C           D      G C G
Never meant for one as beautiful as you