starry starry night

8月18日

从猎人谷回家的时候，

我在笔记本里这样写着。

回程的途中，

看见满天星斗...

starry starry night...

寻找南极星...在哪？

看到满天的星星，

忽然想起这首歌。

所以隔天就去了CD店，

买了有这首歌的专辑。

这首歌名是——Vincent。

Vincent是70年代美国民歌手Don Mclean的名曲。

描写对象是19世纪画家梵谷（Vincent van Gogh)，

他作画时间只有十年，绝对是个天才，

可是在世时无人欣赏，在狂热的精力与压力下，

他终于崩溃，

住进精神病院，后在院中自杀身亡，

终年37岁。

而其传世作品——流星之夜（starry night），

向日葵，鸢尾草，空椅子以及自画像，

都是在精神病院中稍为清醒的时候的作品。

这首歌词是向他致敬以及试图探索画家的内心世界。

对画家不为世人了解而深表同情，

更认为这个庸俗的世界承载不到一个天才而可惜。

梵谷之作品starry night

Starry, starry night, paint your palette blue and gray.
Look out on a summer's day,With eyes they 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.
Now I understand what you try 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 flower's 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.
For they could not love you, but still your love is 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 cant 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