Tuesday, July 19, 2011

But I Could Have Told You Vincent...

"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 daffodils 
Catch the breeze and the winter chills 
In colours on the snowy linen land 





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 






 Starry, starry night 


Flaming flowers that brightly blaze 
Swirling clouds and violet haze 
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue 
Colours changing hue 
Morning fields of amber grain 
Weathered faces lined in pain 
Are soothed beneath the artists' loving hand 

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 

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 

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 

Now I think I know 
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're not listening still 
Perhaps they never will..."
-Starry, Starry Night
by Don McLean
(To hear Josh Groban sing this song, click here)

My deep, passionate love for Vincent Van Gogh will never die. His paintings are beautiful. So. Dang. Beautiful. I'm Van Gogh's fangirl and always will be. Some like Orlando Bloom and the like (not saying I don't...), but I'd rather when a trip to meet Van Gogh than one of them. Sadly, I can't. How crappy is that? 

And this song, Starry Starry Night, is beautiful too. Especially when Josh Groban sings it. Or when Chloe Angew sings it.


<3 you Van Gogh and don't forget it. 




I own none of these photos. 

4 comments:

  1. Beautiful, beautiful song and art and post as a whole. Starry, Starry Night is one of my all-time favorite paintings. If I could own one famous painting (or a print), that'd be it.

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  2. Really? Awesome!
    I don't know which Van Gogh painting I'd choose. I love so many of his. I don't know all there names, sadly.

    I think I'd go with all his night pictures because of all the brilliant blue and yellows together. I also like his landscapes a lot.

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  3. Ahem, the song "Starry Starry Night" was originally written and performed by Don McLean.
    You didn't mention him. I wonder why :)

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  4. Yeah, I thought I did. I put it under the song, blind old lady. ;]

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