爱你就像爱生命

Words/Music: Don Mclean

Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and grey,
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 field 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 in sight
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 head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the 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 would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will.

乐曲简介：
　　《这首歌是献给荷兰的后印象派画家文森特.凡高的，Starry Starry Night 即是凡高的一幅画。Don McLean 用原声吉他自始至终伴着他叙事诗似的歌，把人们带入那冬天落雪的风景中，带入凡高浓烈的色彩中，带入对他深切的同情中去，让我们触摸他的爱与美的世界。这首歌在1972年英国排行榜上数周居于榜首，不仅因为 Don McLean 的魅力，也因为凡高的魅力。。。

关于Don Mclean：
　　生于1945/10/2,New Rochelle,New York.60年代早期Don在纽约州的俱乐部中以灌制唱片开始了他的演艺生涯,大多数时间里,Don是一名游吟歌手.1970年他曾写了一首纪念凡.高的音乐献词.Don的首次亮相TAPESTRY专辑同年出版,但没能卖出去.艺术家联合会第二年和他签约并制作了American Pie的一个增加版.这首歌惊人地登上了英国排行榜第二,美国第一的位置.这首歌的同名专辑也获得成功.Don也由此被认为是最有天赋和最有商业价值的新生歌手.尽管开头不错,Don的演艺生涯在70年代中期却陷入了困境,好在他是一名具有强烈自我意识的歌手,1980年他凭借一曲Crying重登排行榜.之后,他的再版旧专辑也引起轰动,他个人也因此而进行大规模巡回演出.80年代以后,Don转而向乡村音乐发展,不过仍处于流行音乐的主流.1991年,他那张已有20周岁的专辑American Pie出乎意料的重返英国排行榜前20位,这无疑又掀起了人们对他早先作品的兴趣.

相关评论：
　　麦克莱恩是位很擅长印象派点彩描绘的歌手，在献给荷兰后印象派画家文森特.凡.高的歌"文森特"（也叫星光灿烂的夜）中这一点表现更明显。参观过凡高画展，那些色彩浓烈的画纷至沓来，涂满了歌手的印象：星光灿烂的夜，郁暗的小屋，荫翳的山坡，树木和水仙，沃雪的田野，似火的鲜花，变幻的紫云，深蓝的眼睛，憔悴的面容，挂满受伤肖像的画廊，褴褛衣衫的人和落在新雪之上带银刺的血色玫瑰。"此刻我明白你想告诉我的，是你的心智使你倍受煎熬。你多想让人们获得自由，可他们根本听不进，现在不，也许永远不。"这首歌最动人之处还在于它原声吉他的优美伴奏。原声吉他的民谣分解和弦伴奏，我格外偏爱，它总给我一种孤独智者的感觉。唐.麦克莱恩的另外两首很值得借鉴的原声吉他伴奏名曲是"我如此爱你"和罗依.奥比森的老歌"哭泣"。


关于梵高：
　　他摒弃了一切后天习得的知识，
　　漠视学院派珍视的教条，
　　甚至忘记他自己的理性，
　　在它的眼中，
　　只有生机盎然的自然景观，
　　他陶醉于其中，物我两忘。
　　天地万物于它是不可分割的整体，
　　他用全部身心，
　　拥抱一切。”
　　　　——安德烈.洛特　　

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