Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
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
Chorus:
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 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 inside
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 strangers that you ve met
The ragged men 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 your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not how
Perhaps they ll listen now
They did not listen they re not listening still
Perhaps they never will
02.
Lisa Ono
Lisa Ono出生在巴西，原籍日本。她的歌声很空灵，没有任何杂质。音乐是久长的沉淀物，她的作品都很有生命力，可以说是永远不过时的。个人原因，我只在一个人的时候听她的曲子。
我放在帖子里的这首《La Vie En Rose》（点击下载）是发表于1942年的老歌，原唱者Edith Piaf。Lisa Ono的演绎是六十多个版本里最成功的，她抽取了原唱中间的精华部分。
Quand il me prend dans ses bras,
Il me parle tout bas,
Je vois la vie en rose.
Il me dit des mots d amour,
Des mots de tous les jours,
Et ça me fait quelque chose.
Il est entré dans mon coeur,
Une part de bonheur,
Dont je connais la cause.
C est toi pour moi,
Moi pour toi,
Dans la vie.
Il me l a dit,
L a juré,
Pour la vie.
Et dès que je l aperçois,
Alors je sens en moi,
Mon coeur qui bat.
03.
Eva Cassidy
The water is wide
I can t cross over
And either have
I wings to fly
Give me a boat
that can carry two
And both shall row
my love and I
Oh love is gentle
and love is kind
The sweetest flower
when first it s new
But love goes on
then waxing cold
And fades away
like morning dew
There s a ship
and she sails the sea
She s loaded deep
as deep can be
But not as deep
as the love I m in
I know not if
I sink or swim
05.
Sinead O Connor
一直以来，Sinead O Connor都是一个桀骜不驯的女人。光头、言辞犀利、易怒、极少阴柔，她是一位严肃的摇滚Lady。她多次宣称如果在她出场前挂出星条旗则拒绝出演，甚至在有4项提名的情况下退出年度Grammy奖的评选。
关于她，常听的一曲是《Streets Of London》（点击下载），浅吟低唱，细碎低语，带着些浅浅的沉静美，从容平静。这首歌讲述的故事很飘渺，很像印象派电影的感觉。退役的老水兵，褪色的勋章，一切都很欧洲。
Have you seen the old man
In the closed down market
Kicking up the papers with his worn out shoes
In his eyes you see no pride
Hands held loosely at his side
Yesterday s paper, telling yesterday s news
* So how can you tell me you re lonely
And say for you that the sun don t shine
Let me take you by the hand
And lead you through the streets of London
I ll show you something
Have you seen the old girl
Who walks the streets of London
Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags
She s no time for talking
She just keeps right on walking
Carrying her home in two carrier bags
In the old night cafe at a quarter past eleven
The same old man sitting there on his own
Looking at the world over the rim of his teacup
Each tea lasts an hour, and he wanders home alone
Have you seen the old man
Outside the seaman s mission
Memory fading with the minor ribands that he wears
In our city winter the rain cries little pity
For one more forgotten hero
And a world which doesn t care
