梵高, (Vincent William van Gogh, 1853-1890），荷蘭畫家，後派代表人物。一生為精神病所苦。二十七歲時開始畫畫，三十七歲選擇自殺結束生命。十年間用畫筆繒出八百多幅作品表達自己心中對世界的愛恨, 用厚塗有力的筆觸、漩渦般打轉的線條、鮮活爆炸似的色彩, 表現出內在的狂熱與感動。身前受盡批評, 死後却得到後世的認同和景仰。
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
Are 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 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.
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