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This poem is about Vincent van Gogh and his struggle with mental illness. It describes the night sky and landscapes that Van Gogh captured in his paintings. The poem suggests that although Van Gogh's love for art was true, others did not understand his suffering and he ultimately took his own life. Now, the poet understands what Van Gogh was trying to convey through his work and expresses hope that others may now listen to mental health issues.
Song
- 1. Perhaps they'll listen now Starry, Starry Night Starry, starry night For they could not love you Paint your palette blue and grey But still your love was true Look out on a summer's day And when no hope was left inside With eyes that know the darkness in my On that starry, starry night soul Shadows on the hills You took your life as lovers often do Sketch the trees and the daffodils But I could have told you, Catch the breeze and the winter chills Vincent, In colors on the snowy linen land This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you Now I understand What you tried to say to me Starry, starry night And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free Portraits hung in empty halls They would not listen they did not know Frameless heads on nameless walls how With eyes that watch the world and can't Perhaps they'll listen now. forget Like the strangers that you've met Starry, starry night The ragged men in ragged clothes Flaming flowers that brightly blaze A silver thorn Swirling clouds in violet haze A bloody rose Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow Colors changing hue Now I think I know Morning fields of amber grain What you tried to say to me Weathered faces lined in pain And how you suffered for your sanity Are soothed beneath the artist's LOVING And how you tried to set them free hand They would not listen They're not listening still Now I understand Perhaps they never will 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