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Vincent [Live]
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Don McLean
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Paint your palette blue and gray.
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Look out on a summer's day
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With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
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Shadows on the hills.
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Sketch the trees and the daffodils;
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Catch the breeze and the winter chills
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In colors on the snowy linen land.
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Now I understand
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What you tried to say to me,
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And how you suffered for your sanity
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And how you tried to set them free.
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They would not listen; they did not know how.
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Perhaps they'll listen now.
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Starry, starry night:
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Flaming flowers that brightly blaze;
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Swirling clouds in violet haze
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Reflect in vincent's eyes of china blue.
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Colors changing hue:
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Morning fields of amber grain,
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Weathered faces lined in pain
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Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
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Now I understand
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What you tried to say to me,
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And how you suffered for your sanity
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And how you tried to set them free.
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They would not listen; they did not know how.
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Perhaps they'll listen now.
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For they could not love you
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But still, your love was true.
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And when no hope was left inside
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On that starry, starry night
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You took your life as lovers often do.
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But I could've told you, vincent:
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This world was never meant
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For one as beautiful as you.
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Starry, starry night:
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Portraits hung in empty halls:
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Frameless heads on nameless walls
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With eyes that watch the world and can't forget;
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Like the strangers that you've met:
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The ragged men in ragged clothes.
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The silver thorn, a bloody rose
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Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.
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Now I think I know
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What you tried to say to me,
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And how you suffered for your sanity
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And how you tried to set them free.
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They would not listen; they're not listening still.
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Perhaps they never will.
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