還有印象嗎?
荷蘭銀行很久以前推出一個超炫的梵谷動畫信用卡廣告,是否曾經吸引了你的注意呢?
是否也注意到他好聽的背景音樂。

是的,廣告配樂中這首向梵谷致敬的民謠歌曲就叫做 ~ Vincent (Starry Starry Night),最早出現在 Don Mclean ~ 唐麥克林這位美國民謠歌手於1971年所錄製經典專輯 ~ American Pie(美國派)」之中。 


1887年自畫像
十九世紀後印象派畫家文森.梵谷(Vincent VanGogh 1853-1890)一生坎坷不遇,他的油畫、水彩、素描等作品共計一千七百餘件,然終其一生只賣出一幅「紅葡萄園」,梵谷是一位悲劇性的畫家,他的畫作是在死後才被世人所重視。 

他曾對農夫說:我在畫布上耕作,你在田地上耕犁。珍視生命而對人世間付出溫暖的關懷的梵谷最後被送入瘋人院!最後於1890年7月,梵谷舉槍自殺,享年僅三十九歲。

以畫家梵谷為名的這首歌曲「Vincent」是 Don Mclean(唐麥克林)在欣賞梵谷的畫作「Starry Night」(星夜)時,對於同為藝術家的梵谷之遭遇與孤寂所引發的創作靈感。同時這首歌也是唐麥克林傳世數十年的經典代表作一。 


 

Vincent/Don Mclean 1971     文森/唐麥克林 1971
 

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 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 laze 
Swirling clouds in violet haze  
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue 
Colors changing hue        
Morning fields amber grain     
Wheathered faces lined in pain    
Are soothed beneath        
The artists 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 look youe life        
As lover 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 man 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 you sanity   
How you tried to set them free    
They could not listen       
They're not listening still      
Perhaps they never will 
      

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