Starry Starry Night

美国著名民谣歌手Don McLean（唐·麦克林）的《Starry Starry Night》（星夜）是Don McLean为纪念荷兰的伟大画家文森特·梵高而作，收录在那张为其赢来巨大声誉的专辑《American Pie》（美国派）里，歌曲创作的灵感来自梵高的一幅著名的画作。歌的旋律流畅得浑如天成，词作也是如画般的唯美，让人想起德国小说家施笃姆的诗意小说中大段大段描写的空蒙月色，Don Mclean用原声吉它自始至终伴着他的叙事诗似的歌，把人们带入那冬天落雪的风景中。整首曲子的配器就是一把木吉他，极致的简约之美。

梵高最受人爱戴的名画就是1889年他住在St.Remy精神病院内所画的The Starry Night，也就是Don McLean在《Starry Starry Night》的第一句歌词。这幅名画The Starry Night现放于纽约Museum of Modern Art内，每天开始及完结时，艺术馆都会播放DonMcLean的《Starry Starry Night》这首名曲。
 
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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 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

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