Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hill
Sketch the trees and daffodils
Catch the breeze and winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land.
And 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
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world
And can't forget like strangers
That you've met
Ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
And you tried to set them free:
They would not listen
They're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
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've told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.
i love this song it is just straight to the point
is this some sort of stupid joke?
i love the original... i guess this is an ok cover
This is the most meaningful song ever. and its not a joke adn the original vesion is good too.
this is the most beautiful song i've ever heard
who is vincent?
this song is perfectly done..
the song is about vincent van gogh, the famous painter.. doesnt that make a lot more sense. i got there new cd and it said that in the booklet.
Probably the best and sadest love song ever. Props to Don Mclean for making these kick ass lyrics and props to NOFX for making a kick ass intrumental.
this song is on the album 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records. it's a cover and it was originally written by Don McLean (same guy who wrote American Pie about Buddy Holly) and it's about Vincent Van Gogh. you've all seen the starry night painting and you should know who vincent van gogh is. anyway, everyone should go buy the above mentioned CD, it's worth it just to read all the crap fat mike wrote about all the songs. hilarious. and i think nofx did a really good job with this cover although they left out a whole verse, who knows why