【Vincent】为画家梵高而写的一首歌-Don Mclean

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Vincent这首歌的旋律一定是听过，只是从没有注意过歌名和歌词。当伊克拉木轻弹吉它，声音响起，旋律一下子就跳出来，跟着哼起，整个周末，挥之不去。

通过wiki和网络，知道了这是美国民谣歌手 Don McLean为荷兰画家梵高（Vincent Van Gogh）而写，作于1971年。感叹梵高的艺术不为当时社会所赏识，以及其穷苦潦倒、英年早逝的生命。歌曲中穿插不少梵高的作品名，如Starry Night, Sketch the trees and the daffodils, Morning fields of amber grain.

名画 The Starry Night,是纽约现代美术馆 MoMA的镇馆宝物, 1889年梵高在精神病院内所画的。The Starry Night《星夜》是一幅既亲近又茫远的风景画，不像白杨的白扬树，尖顶的教堂之下，阴郁的村庄安然栖息；星星在旋转着、以一种爆发的姿态。……奔放的，火焰般的笔触…. 画，是自由的，正如他。颜色是厚重的，恰似他不堪承受的痛苦。星空是无奈的，而他的无奈更深。…. 在那幅画问世13个月之后，在麦穗轻轻摇摆的奥维尔麦田深处，梵高选择了放弃生命，早已濒临绝望的生命。

下面这个视频, 一幅幅梵高的画作色彩浓重而无奈地翻过, , 配着木吉它的清沥和 Don McLean朴实得透明的嗓音, 声给画带来注释, 画给词带来内涵, 令我内心流动着一种纯粹而宁静的感动!
（引自: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_48667cfc01000ae2.html）

VINCENT

-- Don McLean --

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 (向日葵)

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 (梵高的自画像)

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 inside,

On that starry, starry night

You took your life as lovers often do--

But I could've 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, a bloody rose

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

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.

视频中许多梵高的名画，收藏于纽约大都会博物馆，现代美术馆（MoMA），和华盛顿国家美术馆，有机会的话，请前往观赏。华盛顿的国家美术馆免费，MoMA每周五4：00-8：00pm 免费参观，非常拥挤。提醒一下先从五楼开始，Starry Night通常会被围得里三层外三层的。大都会博物馆门票是建议价（看着给哦），一天是绝对不够看的。