关于星星的歌,除了twinkle twinkle little star就不会别的了,想起有一首旋律很优美的歌,好像是“starry starry night”开始的,于是就去查了歌词,想学了唱给Julie听。看了歌词,结果为自己的无知很汗颜。
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 the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the 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 blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's 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 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 head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the 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 would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will...
说的明明是Vincent Van Gogh,和星星基本没有什么关系,只是用他著名的一幅starry night作为开始罢了。听Don McLean唱到:
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.
不禁潸然泪下。
虽然歌词实在不适合作为儿童歌曲,最后因为歌词实在精彩,还是学了头两段唱歌Julie听。第一段中的押韵词“night”,"grey", "day", "land" Julie都很喜欢。不知道将来有一天她是否会惊讶的发现这首歌的深意。