Paint your palette blue and grey
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
And when no hope was left in sight
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world
Like the stranger that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free