A slideshow of Vincent Van Gogh's work set to the
song "Vincent" by Don McLean. It's part of an art and creative writing
lesson plan for the patients at Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield.
Starry,
starry
night,
Paint
your palette blue and
gray
Look
out on a summer's day
With
eyes that know the
darkness
in my soul
Shadows
on the hills
Sketch
the trees and the
daffodils
Catch
the breeze and the
winter
chills
In
colors on the snowy linen
land
CHORUS:
Now
I understand
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 did
not know how
Perhaps
they'll listen now
Starry
starry night
Flaming
flowers that brightly
blaze
Swirling
clouds in violet haze
Reflecting
in Vincent's eyes
of china blue
Colors
changing hue, morning
fields of amber grain
Weathered
faces lined in pain
Are
soothed beneath the
artist's
loving hand
Repeat Chorus:
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
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 strangers that you've
met
The
ragged men in ragged
clothes
The
silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lie
crushed and broken on the
virgin snow
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
did not listen, they're
not listening still
Perhaps
they never will