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Vincent by Don McLean
Album: American Pie (1972)
The words and imagery of this song represent the life, work, and death of Vincent Van Gogh.
A Starry Night is one of the Dutch impressionist's most famous paintings.
The lyrics, "Paint your palette blue and gray" reflect the prominent colors of the painting, and are probably a reference to Vincent's habit of sucking on or biting his paintbrushes while he worked.
The "ragged men in ragged clothes" and "how you tried to set them free" refer to Van Gogh's humanitarian activities and love of the socially outcast as also reflected in his paintings and drawings.
"They would not listen/They did not know how" refers to Van Gogh's family and some associates who were critical of his kindness to "the wretched."
"How you suffered for your sanity" refers to the schizophrenic disorder from which Van Gogh suffered.
Another of my all time favourite songs.
Well worth watching the youtube link at the end of my log.
A tortured soul, a trying time for many people right now.
Other useful links attached also.
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 the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors 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 in violet haze
Reflect 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
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 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 strangers that you've met
The ragged men in the 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
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
Written and performed by: Don McLean
Some Daffodils.
Thanks for the cache geono.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/don-mclean/vincent
https://coronavirus.beyondblue.org.au/managing-my-daily-life/coping-with-isolation-and-being-at-home.html
Album: American Pie (1972)
The words and imagery of this song represent the life, work, and death of Vincent Van Gogh.
A Starry Night is one of the Dutch impressionist's most famous paintings.
The lyrics, "Paint your palette blue and gray" reflect the prominent colors of the painting, and are probably a reference to Vincent's habit of sucking on or biting his paintbrushes while he worked.
The "ragged men in ragged clothes" and "how you tried to set them free" refer to Van Gogh's humanitarian activities and love of the socially outcast as also reflected in his paintings and drawings.
"They would not listen/They did not know how" refers to Van Gogh's family and some associates who were critical of his kindness to "the wretched."
"How you suffered for your sanity" refers to the schizophrenic disorder from which Van Gogh suffered.
Another of my all time favourite songs.
Well worth watching the youtube link at the end of my log.
A tortured soul, a trying time for many people right now.
Other useful links attached also.
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 the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors 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 in violet haze
Reflect 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
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 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 strangers that you've met
The ragged men in the 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
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
Written and performed by: Don McLean
Some Daffodils.
Thanks for the cache geono.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/don-mclean/vincent
https://coronavirus.beyondblue.org.au/managing-my-daily-life/coping-with-isolation-and-being-at-home.html
Rated: for Overall Experience.
