Thursday, March 09, 2006

Though it's raining outside

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,
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,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field 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,
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.

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 head 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 of 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 would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will...

-Don McLean

PS I love you CareBear

7 Comments:

Blogger Chana said...

And just in case there's anyone who hasn't heard it- you can hear it in midi file here.

Raining in Chicago...and the weather was so beautiful today. :)

March 09, 2006 8:04 PM  
Blogger Irina Tsukerman said...

And I love this song! I can listen to it endlessly. Would you believe it, I didn't make a connection between the title and the song until a blogger tipped me off recently?

March 09, 2006 8:33 PM  
Blogger e-kvetcher said...

OK, I feel old. I've never heard of this Josh Groban - I was thinking of the original by Don McLean.

Irina, were you also referring to Josh Groban's cover?

March 09, 2006 10:02 PM  
Blogger Irina Tsukerman said...

Nope. I've actually only heard the Julio Iglesias version. : 8

March 09, 2006 10:11 PM  
Blogger Shoshana said...

My favorite painting - thanks for the beautiful visual as well as words.

March 10, 2006 5:15 AM  
Blogger dbs said...

It's a great song, (and don't quote me but I think that it was done on American Idol last week). Associations make the song, and this one is one of my ex-wife's favorites. I do think of her when I hear it, and, although it stirs painful memories, it's also a good reminder that there was both good and bad. (In any case, I have a negative thing about all suicide songs, whether it's by Sum 41 or Don Mclean.)

March 13, 2006 8:16 AM  
Blogger e-kvetcher said...

and don't quote me but I think that it was done on American Idol last week

Weird. I don't really watch TV anymore and don't really listen to mainstream radio so I had no idea that this song is being played in all these places and covered by new people.

I have no idea what made me think of this song at this time. Frankly, I figured most of the readers of the blog, at least the younger folks, would have no idea about it.

March 13, 2006 9:20 AM  

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