《Vincent starry, starry night》和《渴望生活 梵高传》

很多著名的歌手都演唱过这首《Vincent starry, starry night》,我却固执的喜欢胡里奥 伊格莱西亚斯(Julio Iglesias)演唱的那个充满了深情的版本。这首歌让我又一次想起了欧文 斯通的那本《渴望生活 梵高传》。

    当然在梵高画下《Starry Night》时，绝不会想到近百年之后，美国乡村民谣歌手Don McClean会在读过梵高传这本书之后，写出了这首歌来献给这个为人类做出不朽贡献的伟大画家。歌词中最动人的是：“this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you”，是的，梵高承受的苦难无人可以相比，梵高的艺术贡献也同样举世无双。

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
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
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 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 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
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
how you tried to set them free
they will not listen they're not listening still
perhaps they never willl

星光灿烂的夜晚，
你将画板涂上一层灰蓝，
夏日里极目眺望，
你那深邃的眼睛穿透了我灵魂的黑暗，
山坡，倒影，树木，花朵，微风，冬寒，
这一切都被你用颜色在雪白的画布上再现。

直到现在我才明白，
你要对我说些什么，
才知道你为了自己的清行，理智受了多少折磨，
你要使人们得到自由解脱，
可他们怎会理解，倾听你的叙说，
也许他们现在已愿补过。
星光灿烂的夜晚，
火焰般的花朵绚丽夺目，
紫罗兰色的薄雾中，云浪在翻滚旋涡，
千变万化的颜色，在Vicent湛蓝的眼睛里闪烁者光辉，
清晨的原野一片暮辉，
饱经风霜的脸皱纹成堆，
可是，在画家深情爱抚的笔下，他们都得到了安慰。

直到现在我才明白，你要对我说些什么，
才知道你为了自己的清行，理智受了多少折磨，
你要使人们得到自由解脱，
可他们怎会理解，倾听你的叙说，
他们没有去爱你，
可是你的爱还是那么真诚执著。
在那星光灿烂的夜晚，
当你心中的希望已完全沉默，
你夺去了自己的生命，就好像失恋的情人不愿再活。
可是Vicent，我多么想告诉你，
这个世界对你这些崇高美丽的人，从来就没有适合过。