Don McClean of "Miss American Pie" Lyrics to his new song...

[retrospective66]

It's about Vincent Van Gogh, how he (VVG) probably saw things as those of us who have ever suffered major depression see or have, at one time, seen them ~ Vincent Van Gogh's last painting was "Starry Night"

Artist: Don McLean Lyrics
Song: Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) Lyrics


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...

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[lizziegrace]

1. Josh Groban did a remake of this a couple years ago

It's one of my favorite songs. The old original by Don McLean is still the best version.

[havocmom]

2. New song?

That one is on my American Pie LP On of my all time favorite oldies.

There are several very good songs on that old album. Gads, my knees worked back then too.

[dolo amber]

3. New? Is it the remix?

:shrug:

[WCGreen]

4. It's a song about Madonna right.....

snicker......

Another Van Gogh reference in Pop Music.....

Iggy, Lust for Life....

Sure I've had it in my ear before....

[DemoTex]

5. Old, old, old (but great) song.

I remember it from about 1972. About the time of "American Pie." Both bring back great memories of life, post-Viet Nam. Part of my post-Viet Nam recovery project took me to the south of France in the autumn of 1972. I looked at the crows, and fields, and blood moons through the same pungent haze of herb (and wine) that Vincent probably used. "Starry Nights" and "American Pie" were top of the charts in France that year too. When I got to Montparnesse (Paris), and "The Lilas" (restaurant in Hemingway's "Movable Feast"), I almost stayed. Now I wish I had (but with my best friend in the world, dear Dr. D).

[Cocoa]

6. someone sang that song on "American Idol"

it blew the judges' minds. One of them called it "weird" or something like that. :crazy:

[idgiehkt]

8. "Everybody Loves Me Baby" is great too, could be about Bush

One, two, three, four!

Fortune has me well in hand, armies 'wait my command
My gold lies in a foreign land buried deep beneath the sand
The angels guide my ev'ry prayer, my enemies are sick or dead
But all the victories I've led haven't brought you to my bed

CHORUS:
You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?

Now the purest race I've bred to be to live in my democracy
And the highest human pedigree awaits the first-born boy baby
And my face on ev'ry coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved
My own flag is forever waved by the grateful people I have saved

CHORUS:
You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?

Now, no man is beyond my claim when land is seized in the people's name
By evil men who rob and maim, if war is hell, I'm not to blame!
Why, you can't blame me, I'm Heaven's child, I'm the second son of Mary mild
And I'm twice removed from Oscar Wilde, but he didn't mind, why, he just smiled

Yes, and the ocean parts when I walk through, and the clouds dissolve and the sky turns blue
I'm held in very great value by everyone I meet but you
'cause I've used my talents as I could, I've done some bad, I've done some good
I did a whole lot better than they thought I would so, c'mon and treat me like you should!

Because everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?

Everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?

Yeah, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?
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Could be a love letter from Bush to Osama, that

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. That song always makes me think of this poem...

The Starry Night
by Anne Sexton

That does not keep me from having a terrible need of—shall I say the word—religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother


The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die.

It moves. They are all alive.
Even the moon bulges in its orange irons
to push children, like a god, from its eye.
The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die:

into that rushing beast of the night,
sucked up by that great dragon, to split
from my life with no flag,
no belly,
no cry.