王若琳 Joanna Wang - Vincent (Starry, starry night)

[Youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqX2OKG9UzA[/Youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqX2OKG9UzA

這首歌是民謠詩人唐麥克林最著名的創作之一，講的是著名的荷蘭畫家文生˙梵谷的故事。歌詞的第一句：Starry, starry night，便是引用梵谷的畫作「星夜」的名稱，歌曲中許多的歌詞也都是在描述梵谷畫中的景象。這位天才畫家在世的時候，因為將耳朵割下來送給心愛的妓女等種種瘋狂的舉動，被當做瘋子看待，最後是在窮困潦倒中抑鬱而終，沒有人料得到他的畫作「鳶尾花」、「向日葵」後來會成為有史以來拍賣價格最高的藝術品，身價都近二千萬美元。
這首「Vincent」據說在荷蘭的梵谷紀念館中，長年不斷的播放著，以陪伴梵谷和他不朽的畫作……。

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...

[ 本帖最後由 szh0630 於 2009-11-15 20:21 編輯 ]