双语美文繁星点点

　　Vincent (Starry Starry Night)
　　文森特（繁星点点）
　　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 daffodils
　　catch the breeze and the winter chills
　　in colors on the snowy linen land
　　繁星点点的夜晚
　　你的画板上只调制了蓝与灰
　　用你那双看得见我灵魂污秽的眼睛
　　在炎夏之日向外望
　　山坡上的暗影
　　勾勒出树木与水仙的轮廓
　　用亚麻布般的苍茫雪地之色
　　去捕捉阵阵微风与严冬肃杀
　　Now I understand what you try 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 you now
　　现如今我才懂得你对我的诉说
　　你因睿智思索遭受了多大痛苦
　　你又是多想解放你的思想自由
　　他们不予理会
　　他们根本没法理会
　　也许他们现在才懂得
　　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
　　繁星点点的夜晚
　　绚烂如火怒放的鲜花
　　紫罗兰色迷雾中旋转着的云团
　　都投影在文森特青瓷般藏蓝的眼睛中
　　色彩变幻绽放，清晨琥珀色的稻田
　　苍老的脸庞镌刻着痛苦的皱纹
　　都在艺术家慈爱的手下被抚慰
　　Now I understand what you try 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 you now
　　For they could not love you
　　but still your love was ture
　　现如今我才懂得你对我的诉说
　　你因睿智思索遭受了多大痛苦
　　你又是多想解放你的思想自由
　　他们不予理会
　　他们根本没法理会
　　也许他们现在才懂得
　　他们不可能爱你啊
　　但你的爱是真实的
　　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
　　当在繁星点点的夜空中
　　你的心中再无希望可存
　　你亲手奉上自己的生命
　　就像那些殉情爱人一样
　　但我想要告诉你文森特
　　这世上再无如你这般的.美好
　　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 stranger that you've met
　　the ragged man in ragged cloth
　　The silver thorn in a bloody rose
　　lies crushed and broken on the virgin snow
　　繁星点点的夜晚
　　空荡的大厅里悬挂着肖像画
　　无名之墙上的无框头像
　　用那双一睹难忘的眼睛注视着世界
　　就像你与你擦肩而过的陌生人
　　那些衣衫褴褛的邋遢的人
　　银色荆棘映衬着的血色玫瑰
　　支离破碎地躺在初雪的大地上
　　Now I think I know what you try to say to me
　　that how you suffered for your sanity
　　and how you try to set them free
　　They would not listen they're not listening still
　　perhaps they never will
　　现如今我才懂得你对我的诉说
　　你因睿智思索遭受了多大痛苦
　　你又是多想解放你的思想自由
　　他们不予理会
　　他们仍然不予理会
　　或许他们永远不予理会
　　背景资料：
　　《Vincent》(starry starry night，繁星点点)是唐·麦克林（Don Mclean）欣赏了凡高的作品《星夜》之后激情创作的。这首歌的曲风同其它乡村民谣相比并无异质，还是那种散发着淡淡的幽香的小品文风格，它的过人之处在于它那发人深省的歌词上。Mclean 用他那诗人般的手笔向我们展示了一幅又一幅的优美画卷，同时也以他那天才般的敏锐洞悉出凡高内心的苦楚，表达了对这位天才画家的深深的理解与敬意。歌中Mclean 用极尽绚烂的词藻来描绘凡高的画，旨在表现凡高那灿若向日葵般的生命。