Don Mclean 在1960年末及71年先後寫成American Pie 及 Vincent 兩首golden hits 後，在其後漫長的創作歷程上，迄今三十多年再沒能創作出第三隻同级的golden hit了...
屬於流星般的光芒!
但有或無的分別在於, 僅此兩首就夠讓他名留史冊...
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伸延點唱(1)
Vincent (Starry Starry Night)
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 you 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 fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Chorus:
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 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 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 would not listen they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will.
這首歌寫梵谷的星夜, 也寫梵谷的人生:
星夜 The Starry Night 作者：梵谷 Van Gogh 年份：1889
畫作：畫布上油彩 Oil on canvas 尺寸：73.7 x 92.1 cm
藏處：美國紐約現代美術館 Museum of Modern Art, New York
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伸延點唱(2)
American Pie
A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, they’d be happy for a while.
But february made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn’t take one more step.
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died...
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- 留言者: 利小容
- Email: franslai@yahoo.com
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- 日期: 2007-02-10 19:11:00
To 小綠 多謝推介Crying呢首歌給大家欣賞...
真係好迷人...殺死人添
- 留言者: 小綠
- Email: luk_jane@yahoo.com.hk
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- 日期: 2007-02-09 16:00:00
hello, 如大家有興趣聽聽 Don McLean 的 Crying 請按下面的連結,內有中英文歌詞對照及歌曲. http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/lilyweng/Crying/Crying.htm
- 留言者: 笨笨
- Email: ipod_favorite@yahoo.com.hk
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- 日期: 2007-02-09 10:04:00
莉小蓉:我係阿笨呀，估唔到係呢度見到妳，真開心，我都好中意聽 Don Mclean的歌既.
- 留言者: 利小容
- Email: franslai@yahoo.com
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- 日期: 2007-02-09 04:38:00
To 小綠 你可否介紹一下Crying呢首歌給大家欣賞呢? Don Mclean 的小品式作品都頗迷人...
- 留言者: 小綠
- Email: luk_jane@yahoo.com.hk
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- 日期: 2007-02-08 18:56:00
Don McLean 的歌, 我最喜歡是 Crying, 由以前讀者時第一次聽已經好鍾意
