Rev. Barry Willie Black sings Vincent
(Tribute to Vincent Lopez – Cannabis Crusader)
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This is a special tribute version of the song, slightly re-arranged.

My lyrics are below. bwb

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Starry, starry night
Paint your palette
Blue and gray
Look out on a
Summer’s day
With eyes that know
The darkness in a 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 try
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 try
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 smoked some weed
As those who hurt often do

But I could’ve told you
Vincent
This world was never meant
For one
As beautiful as you

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung
In empty halls
Frame-less 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 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
And how you suffer
For your sanity
And how you try
To set them free

They would not listen
But we’re hoping still
Our hope
They cannot kill
~
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bwb