David Roth==《Vincent》

这首歌是美国民谣歌手Don McLean为纪念荷兰的伟大画家文森特•梵高而作，收录在那张为其赢来巨大声誉的专辑《American Pie》里，歌曲创作的灵感来自梵高的一幅著名的画作《Starry Starry Night》（星夜），旋律流畅得浑如天成，词作也是如画般的唯美，让人想起德国小说家施笃姆的诗意小说中大段大段描写的空蒙月色，整首曲子的配器就是一把木吉他，极致的简约之美!!
据说这首《Vincent》在荷兰的梵谷纪念馆中，长年不断的播放着，以陪伴梵高和他不朽的画作。

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 the 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
And 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

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
Lie soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Now I understand what you tried to say to me
And 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,
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 strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes Silver
thorn of bloody rose Lies crushed and broken on the virgin soil
Now I think I know what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free They would not listen,
they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will

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