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