Don McLean 於七十年代 作曲/ 主唱 的 Vincent.
歌曲內容是有關畫家 Vincent Van Gogh ( 梵高 ), 慨嘆天才畫家一生潦倒, starry starry night, paint your palette blue and gray.....歌曲開頭一句就是描述 Vincent 最出名的作品 The Starry night ( 星夜 ), 這幅曾是全球拍賣價值最高的油畫, 達數億港元﹔可惜 Vincent 永遠不會知道, 他早在成名前已發瘋, 自殺死掉了, 生前只賣出過一幅畫......Now I understand what you tried to say to me, How you suffered for your sanity, How you tried to set them free, 歌者望着 The starry night, 有感而發, 「現在我知道你想說什麽了, 你的抑鬱症使你怎樣地痛苦發狂, 你不能擺脫它吧......」They would not listen, they did not know how, Perhaps, they ll listen now 「人們不想聽你的話, 也不想知道怎樣才會聽到....」For they could not love you, And still your love was true, And when no hope was left inside 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. 「雖然他們不愛你, 但你的愛仍然是真摯的, 在這個沒有人施捨希望的星夜裡, 你和一般人一樣仍懷抱希冀去過你的生活, 但我要告訴你, Vincent, 我知道的這個世界從來沒有像你的世界一般, 那樣的美麗.」歌曲是如此結束的, They would not listen, they,re not listening still, Perhaps, they never will... 他們不會聽, 仍然不想聽, 或者他們永遠都不會.....
Vincent 的一生過得很苦, 生前渴望繪畫, 靠哥哥的接濟生活, 還得了精神病, 偏偏死後才成名, 但人們關心的只是畫作的金錢價值, 誰人會去考究創作它們的人, 背後所承受的痛苦呢?
這首歌的歌詞優美, 抄錄如下:--
Artist: Don McLean
Album: Legendary Songs of Don Mclean
Title: Vincent
Starry, starry night
Paint your palette 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 daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
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
Now I understand what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps, they,ll listen now
For they could not love you
And still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
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 hall
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can,t forget
Like the strangers that you,ve met
The ragged man in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
Then how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they,re not listening still
Perhaps, they never will...
1. The Starry Night 是 Vincent Van Gogh 創作於 1889 年, 可去以下 website 看此作品:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/starry-night/gogh.starry-night.jpg
2. Vincent 的生平簡介及其他畫作:
http://www.npgpspm.edu.hk/teaching/18/goho_works.htm
3. Don McLean 演唱 Vincent 的 MV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhsL41qoCWI
@ Hope you would like the song, and Vincent!