Posted by KikiCabell on December 15, 2004, at 10:19:05
In reply to Re: SAR, posted by Phil on December 14, 2004, at 19:55:57
Beautiful, Phil, thank you. I have an old friend named Sarah whom I used to call "Sar" but since that fateful time I have refused to since there is really only one SAR in my life.
> SAR
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> 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 the daffodils,
> Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
> In colors on the snowy linen land.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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> Don McLean
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