Best book I've read in long, long time....

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Best book I've read in long, long time....

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Winter, illness, post-holiday blahs had me finally slowing down enough to read a book in its entirety! I couldn't put this one down...It was an eye opener and inspiration to me on so many levels. Do you have any books you have recently read that you recommend?

Book: Van Gogh's Untold Journey
http://www.amazon.com/Goghs-Untold-Jour ... roduct_top

Starry, Starry Night by Don McLean

Starry, starry night
Paint your pallet blue and gray
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

And 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

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds of violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue

Colors change in hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneith the artist's loving hand.

And now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free

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 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

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like the stranger that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

And 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


Songwriters
MCLEAN, DON

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Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM#t=15
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- Martin Luther King
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