Passenger | Vincent (Cover)

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[passengermusic]

hello everyone !!

hope you’ve all had a great week ?!

we’ve had a brilliant one - after the most phenomenal show at Kew The Music, london we went on to the iconic Montreux Jazz Festival in switzerland where we were lucky enough to share the stage with The Lumineers (such a good band !!!)

then last night we were in beautiful northern spain at Cap Roig Festival… three very different gigs but each of them incredible in their own way :-)

a massive thanks to everyone that came along xxx

i also wanted to share one final sunday night video with you….

this is one of my all time favourite songs and in my eyes a total masterpiece . for this reason its a song i thought i would never cover as its one of the “untouchables” …. but i did …. sorry …. i hope i haven’t ruined it !!

its a slightly different approach to the previous cover songs ….

firstly, its just me and guitar this time as i felt like the lyrics and melody required as much space as possible . the video is also super simple . its just ariel footage of the lake district in northern england . i think with a song as perfect as this simplicity is the key ….

a huge thanks to Yousef Thami for capturing such stunning visuals .


as i said, this will be the last one of the series . its been a wonderful project to work on . thank you all so much for your amazing feedback and for sharing the videos around . also a massive thanks to Jarrad Seng and Bryan Dos Reis as well as my brilliant band and crew for making it all possible .

i’d like to dedicate this video to my good friend chris simmons and his family .

loads of love .

mike x

[LYMusics]

His voice is so unique and when I hear his voice everything becomes calm

[tamald]

you don't know how much I love, adore, respect and worship you man. live forever.

[itudor]

I was just talking with my girlfriend about Van Gogh and now i see this. What a wonderfull Sunday evening. <3

[samisticlife]

Don McLean's version has always brought a lump to my throat when I hear this and now you have done the same. Just beautiful. Thank you.

[esinbs]

this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you❤

[fredsearle]

Nothing better than a pint and passenger life don't get better than this!!!

[THELITERATECOUPLE]

Old passenger is coming back .. I'm so happy

[misterwick]

I appreciate I'm not probably your target audience, but your version of this classic is the best I've heard. It resonates with me as my soul has been broken since losing my legs and now living my life in a wheelchair, I lost all the "good years" the run around enjoy yourself years. I have been so close to the even now. So, as I said it speaks to me... and with your voice.. Awesome.

[gimsithou]

I die from the very beginning of the song. Ty Passenger

[danielcheung]

When I saw this I was like "Gosh! This must be an amazingly touching one". The voice of Passenger and this subtly sad song, what a beautiful combination. My tears just cannot

[Thecanadianwitch]

Lyrics:
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.
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 in violet haze reflect in
Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain

Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath 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.

[stevenzin]

You are the gift of God. Thank you for your beautiful art for this earth. Love from Burma, Myanmar.

[Leonaldo]

he is still underrated! he has so much talent within him!

[MysticHedwig]

one of my favourite songs about one of my favourite painters sung by one of my favourite artists ♥ beautiful!

[katjarunge]

Passenger, you remind me to see who i really am and that makes me feel connected...

[wernerels]

passenger has the perfect voice to sing this song

[smrityrai]

This world was NEVER MEANT FOR ONE AS BEAUTIFUL AS you🙃

[katjarunge]

Passenger, with every song you sing you manage to touch people so deep inside at places they didnt even know about. Your voice is holy man...

[jacquelinemesletzky]

I know this song for long, they used to play it on the radio quite often. I never cared much about it, but that was a fault. This song`s a jewel, and Passenger makes it shine.