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..

听这首歌的感觉是寂寞的,开始时还不知道这首著名的歌曲是唱关于VINCENT VAN GOGH, 歌词第一句starry night ,就是他其中一幅经典油画,星夜.这画是在1889年,他住在精神病院完成的,一生悲苦的画家,在世时被人排斥,连作品都卖不出,三十七岁就去世了.

但在欣赏他的作品时没看到哀伤,反而很舒服.很久以前就看过这幅画,听过这首歌,但现在才知道这些都关于他.希望可以亲眼看看他的作品,尤其是向日葵.