“This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.”

—  Don McLean

Song lyrics, American Pie (1971), Vincent
Context: Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
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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