Don Mclean《Vincent》：凡高自画像和有乌鸦的麦田
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Guitar：
Key：G Capo：0 Play：G
G Am C D7 G
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 hill sketch the trees and the daffodils
catch the breeze and the winter chills in colors on the snowy
linen land.
Am D7 G G/F# Em Am D7 Em A7 C D G
And now I understand what you tried 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 now.
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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 smoothed beneath the artist's
loving hand.
Am D7 G G/F# Em Am D7 Em A7 C D G
And now I understand what you tried 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 now.
Am D7 G G/F# Em Am D7 G G/F# Em A7 C D G
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.
G Am C D7 G
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 men in ragged
clothes
the silver thorn of bloddy rose lie crushed and broken on the
virgin snow.
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And now I think I know what you tried to say to me
and how you suffered for your sanity and how you tried to set
them free.
They would not listen they're not listening still perhaps they
never will.
Bob Dylan & Vincent Van Gogh
Bob Dylan有一首歌＜Three angels＞，歌词是这样写的：
Three angesl up above the street
each one playing a horn
Dressed in green ropes with wings that stick out
They"ve been there since Christmas morn
The wildest cat from Mantana passed by in a flash
Then a lady in a bright orange dress
One U-Haul trailer,a truck with no wheels
The Ten Avenue bus going west
The dogs and pigeons fly up and they flutter around
A man with a badge skips by
Three fellas crawling their way back to work
Nobady stops to ask why
The bakery truck stops outside of that fence
Where the angels stand high on their poles
The driver peeks out,trying to find one face
In this concrete world full of souls
The angels play on their horns all day
The whole earth in progression seems to pass by
But does anyone hear the music they play
Does anyone even try
一首引人沉思的歌谣，顺着歌词听下来，到最后音乐戛然而止，我也茫然于
Bob Dylan所舖陈的世界里：三位天使，立在人世间吟咏天籁，然而飘渺幽微
的天籁，喧嚣尘世何得以闻之，落凡的天使眼睁着人来车往无人闻问，全世
界都走了，他们还立在原地吟咏天籁。
那天使会感到无以言说的落寞吗，空有抱负而不遇于世，苦闷，苦闷郤又无
处抒怀，真的无人听闻吗？
这令我想起凡高。
凡高画自己，画中的凡高总是看着你，他想要说些什么呢？
他孤高自傲，他睥睨世俗，他郁郁寡欢，他怆然猥琐，我们不知道凡高是怎
样活过的，他到污黑矿坑里传教，阴惨景像令他想把它画下来，他27岁决定
以绘画作为生命中的热情，可是饥寒交迫，需要弟弟寄钱才能买颜料，他疯
狂到割下自己的耳朵，并且依此画了一张自画像，他被送进圣保罗收容所，
癫痫疯，他在收容所里的花园继续作画，1890年，凡高吞下子弹结束一生的
挣扎，死前留下＜有乌鸦的麦田＞，一年后，他弟弟过世，骨灰迁移，两兄
弟埋葬在一起。
－－文生卖了一张油画，这是他生前卖掉的唯一一张油画，此时，他已经画
了不下700幅油画。－－
现今在富比士拍卖场，凡高的画作是以百万天价交易。
于是，凡高的自画像成了我挥之不去的幻影。
“我画了一张素描，一群男女矿工在清晨的雪地朝矿坑里走去，小路旁是一
排荆棘，这些人在晨曦中隐隐约约，有如影子。”
“我画画不是要惹恼谁，而是要激起人家的兴趣，让他们注意到那些值看郤
始终不曾看到的东西。”
“绘画是要把这无限的世界纪绿下来。”
“将来我的画会有人欣赏的。不过，我不在乎，就算有人欣赏，我也不会觉
得有多高兴。”
“文生为了解释自己的看法，竟脱掉自己的衣服，跪在地上，什么都无法让
他平静。”
“我很难想像，这个明日画家会是我这种人，这种上小饭馆吃饭，满嘴假牙
，还上军妓院的人。”
“看来凶多吉少，没有多大希望了，若是他命定得这样离开人世，好吧，就
让他死吧，可是，一想到这里，我心都碎了。”（凡高的弟弟迪奥）
“我希望这只不过是画家一时的毛病。我由于割到动脉，所以大量失血，又
发高烧。不过，我很快就恢复了食欲，消化也正常了，身体一天天健康起来
，心情也一天天平静。”
“如果我真的必须待在收容所里，我会慢慢适应的，我想收容所里也找得到
写生的题材。”
“、、、、，我以生命为赌注来画画，为了它，我可说丧失了正常的理智，
而就我所知，你不是做生意的人，但你能够以人道关怀作为行事依据，我能
说什么呢?”(未写完的信，在凡高自杀的房间里找到的)
爱因斯坦评论甘地说道：“很难相信这世上曾走过这样一个血肉之躯。”对
于凡高，我也有同样的怅惘。
屈原到于江滨，被发行吟泽畔，颜色憔悴，形容枯槁。渔父见而问之日：“
子非三阁大夫欤?而故而至此?”屈原日：“举世混浊而我独清，众人皆而我
独醒，是以见放。”渔父日：“举世混浊，何不随其流而扬其波，众人皆醉
，何不𫗦其糟而啜其醨，何故怀瑾握瑜而自令见放?”屈原日：“吾闻之
....，宁赴常流而葬乎江鱼腹中耳，又安能以皓皓之白而蒙世俗之温蠖乎！
”乃作怀沙之赋。
于是怀石遂自沉汨罗以死。
自屈原沉汨罗后百有余年，汉有贾生，为长沙王太傅，过湘水，投书以吊屈
原。
悲古，悲屈原，悲Bob Dylan，悲文生凡高。
－－－－－－
沅湘流不尽，屈子怨何深，
日暮秋风起，萧萧枫树林。
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