他們是誰？

我心中永恒的經典，吉他的彈法是進階的入門，旋律優美時而憂郁，歌詞充滿色彩，用文字來畫梵谷，微妙的符號轉換。

每隔幾年重聽，就有新的體會（最新版本：王若琳），可是到了今天，我還是很難解釋歌詞里面的“they”是誰？

“他們”是世人嗎？是當時不了解他的作品的世人嗎？

為什么Don Mclean會開始希望“他們”會懂，但在最后，幾乎絕望的說“可能他們永遠都不會懂”。他們似乎是梵谷的儈子手，是Don Mclean在這首歌里永恒的嘆氣聲。

他們是誰？

VINCENT--

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.

And 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 flo'rs 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.

And now I understand what you tried to say to me
how 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 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 men in ragged clothes
the silver thorn of bloody rose
lie crushed and broken
on the virgin snow.

And 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 list'ning still
perhaps they never will.