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
Chorus:
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 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
Chorus:
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 did not listen they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
繁星点点的夜里
调色盘上只有蓝与灰
在夏日里出外探访
用你那洞悉我灵魂幽暗处的双眼
山丘上的阴影
描绘出树与水仙花
捕捉微风与冬天的冷冽
用那如雪地里亚麻般的色彩
如今我才明白，你想说的是什么
当你清醒时你有多么痛苦
你努力的想让它们得到解脱
但他们却不理会，也不知该如何做
也许，今后他们将会明了
繁星点点的夜里
火红的花朵灿烂的燃烧着
漩涡似的云飘在紫罗兰色的雾里
映照在文生湛蓝的眼瞳里
色彩变化万千
清晨的田园里琥珀色的农作物
布满风霜的脸罗列着痛苦
在艺术家怜爱的手下得到抚慰
如今我才明白，你想说的是什么
当你清醒时你有多么痛苦
你努力的想让它们得到解脱
但他们却不理会，也不知该怎么做
也许，现在他们知道了
因为当初他们无法爱你
但你的爱依然真实
当灿烂的星空里
不存一丝希望
你像许多恋人一样，结束了自己的生命
但愿我能告诉你，文生
这个世界根本配不上一个美好如你的人
繁星点点的夜里
一幅幅的肖像悬挂在空荡荡的大厅里
无镶框的脸倚靠在寂然的墙上
配上一双看遍世事且永不遗忘的双眼
就像你曾遇见的陌生人
那些衣衫褴褛的人们
也像血红的玫瑰上银色的刺
断裂并静卧在初下的雪上
我想我已明白，你想说的是什么
当你清醒时你有多么痛苦
你努力的想让它们得到解脱
但他们却不理会，现在依然如此
也许，他们永远不会……
这首<Vincent>是美国民谣歌手Don McLean在1971读过Vincent Van Gogh（文森特.凡.高）生平之后由他著名油画<Starry night>（星空）有感而发创作的同名歌曲。整支曲子行云流水却略带忧伤和某种曲高和寡的孤独感，很耐听。与这首歌名气相当的是Don MaLean另外一首长达8分34秒的<American Pie>，尤其到附歌部分“Bye bye, Miss American Pie”估计八成的人都熟悉。
Music: 《Vincent》 《American Pie》