据说，网上出售的临摹名画，梵高的这幅《Starry Night》是最畅销的。而Don McLean的这首 《Vincent》（Starry starry night)无疑也是最雅俗共赏的。但我真怀疑，有多少人真正明白其中的所谓“罪与自救”：
“how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.”
我们都不过是“ragged men in ragged clothes”，所谓席贩狗屠者流，不过盐咸水淡，亦有所感，而已，而已。
Don McLean 《Vincent》 Starry starry night
paint your palette blue and greylook out on a summer’s day
with eyes that know the
darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daffodilscatch the breeze and the winter chills
in colors on the snowy linen land.
And now I understand what you tried to say to mehow you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they did not know howperhaps they’ll listen now.
Starry
starry night
flaming flo’rs that brightly blazeswirling clouds in violet haze reflect in
Vincent’s eyes of China blue.
Colors changing hue
morning fields of amber grainweathered faces lined in pain
are soothed beneath the artist’s
loving hand.
And now I understand what you tried to say to mehow you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
perhaps they’ll listen now.For they could not love you
but still your love was trueand 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 hallsframeless heads on nameless walls
with eyes
that watch the world and can’t forget.
Like the stranger that you’ve metthe ragged men in ragged clothes
the silver thorn of bloddy rose
lie crushed and broken
on the virgin snow.
And now I think I know what you tried to say to mehow you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they’re not
list’ning still
perhaps they never will.
