A Dark Day

And now I understand

What you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free

 

Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you

But still your love was true

 

And when no hope was left in sight

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

 

Like the stranger that you've met

The ragged men in ragged clothes

The silver thorn of bloody rose

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

 

And 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 would not listen

They're not listening still

Perhaps they never will

 

Songwriters

MCLEAN, DON

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