Josh Groban - Vincent (Starry Starry Night) »
Posted By Spadecaller 1 year, 3 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentThis new Spadecaller Video is a tribute to Vincent van Gogh featuring many of the Dutch artist’s masterpieces accompanied by Josh Groban‘s recording of “Vincent” (Starry Starry Night) written by Don McClean.
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Spadecaller1 year, 3 months ago
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"Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)"
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 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 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 and violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colours changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artists' loving hand
Now I understand
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
Perhaps they'll listen now
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 have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
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 suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen
They're not listening still
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Spadecaller1 year, 3 months ago
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The song describes different paintings by van Gogh.
Don McLean wrote the lyrics in 1971 after reading a book about the life of the artist. The following year, the song became the #1 hit in the UK and #12 in the USA. For several years, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam played the song daily -
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Spadecaller1 year, 3 months ago
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Most of you who have seen my videos know quite well how much I enjoy van Gogh's paintings. I did not want to make this video until I felt more experienced, as his paintings truly deserve it. The depth and spirituality within his pieces have brought many a smile and tear to my face -- and many others all over the world, I'm sure. -
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blinkers1 year, 3 months ago
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Anything featuring the work of Vincent Van Gogh has special power and potency. You've done well with this work Spade. Van Gogh's work has added power resulting from his bungled suicide and subsequent death, days later. He is one of the very few artists whose work is enhanced by a knowledge of his troubled life and rapid onset epilepsy. He produced some of the greatest 2-dimensional images in history.
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