{"id":15254,"date":"2020-05-09T12:06:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T16:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=15254"},"modified":"2020-05-10T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T13:43:23","slug":"don-mclean-vincent-starry-starry-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/don-mclean-vincent-starry-starry-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Don McLean &#8211; &#8220;Vincent&#8221; (Starry Starry Night)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Don McLean &#8211; Vincent (Starry Starry Night) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dRWyoFeBJL\">https:\/\/t.co\/dRWyoFeBJL<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YouTube<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Was Obama Born In Kenya (@bsteadman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bsteadman\/status\/1258932591417266176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)&#8221;<\/strong><br><br><em>Starry, starry night<br>Paint your palette blue and gray<br>Look out on a summer&#8217;s day<br>With eyes that know the darkness in my soul<br><br>Shadows on the hills<br>Sketch the trees and the daffodils<br>Catch the breeze and the winter chills<br>In colors on the snowy linen land<\/em><br><br><em>Now I understand<br>What you tried to say to me<br>And how you suffered for your sanity<br>And how you tried to set them free<br><br>They would not listen, they did not know how<br>Perhaps they&#8217;ll listen now<br><br>Starry, starry night<br>Flaming flowers that brightly blaze<\/em><br><em>Swirling clouds in violet haze<br>Reflect in Vincent&#8217;s eyes of china blue<br><br>Colors changing hue<br>Morning fields of amber grain<br>Weathered faces lined in pain<br>Are soothed beneath the artist&#8217;s loving hand<br><br>Now I understand<br>What you tried to say to me<br>And how you suffered for your sanity<br>And how you tried to set them free<br><\/em><br><em>They would not listen, they did not know how<br>Perhaps they&#8217;ll listen now<br><br>For they could not love you<br>But still your love was true<br>And when no hope was left in sight<br>On that starry, starry night<br><br>You took your life, as lovers often do<br>But I could&#8217;ve told you Vincent<br>This world was never meant for<br>One as beautiful as you<br><br>Starry, starry night<br>Portraits hung in empty halls<br>Frame-less heads on nameless walls<br>With eyes that watch the world and can&#8217;t forget<\/em><br><br><em>Like the strangers that you&#8217;ve met<br>The ragged men in ragged clothes<br>The silver thorn of bloody rose<br>Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow<br><br>Now I think I know<br>What you tried to say to me<br>And how you suffered for your sanity<br>And how you tried to set them free<\/em><br><br><em>They would not listen, they&#8217;re not listening still<br>Perhaps they never will<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lyrics credit &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/donmclean\/vincentstarrystarrynight.html\" class=\"aioseop-link\">https:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/donmclean\/vincentstarrystarrynight.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don McLean &#8211; Vincent (Starry Starry Night) https:\/\/t.co\/dRWyoFeBJL via @YouTube \u2014 Was Obama Born In Kenya (@bsteadman) May 9, 2020 &#8220;Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)&#8221; Starry, starry nightPaint your palette blue and grayLook out on a summer&#8217;s dayWith eyes that know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/don-mclean-vincent-starry-starry-night\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15273,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254\/revisions\/15273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}