Caillou & Mom's Corner

提及Van Gogh，Mommy憶起12年前拜訪荷蘭時的點點滴滴。漂洋過海來到了貴寶地，時間真不應浪費在俗不可耐的事上。趁著團友忙著挑選「鑽石」時，邀了另一同齡團友怡貞，脫隊去找尋梵谷那不朽的星空。

Amsterdam---June 18, 1997

真的是文人的故鄉，就在不遠處發現了gallery，也正在展出梵谷的作品，立馬牽了怡貞的手衝了過去。Mamamia！排隊等買票進場的人龍已蔓延數十公尺遠！怕誤了團隊的時間，又怕領隊找不著，只好忍痛放棄，在外面看看海報，嗅嗅從門內散發出來的些許藝術氣息過過乾癮。

梵谷來台北了！可這回也去不成了！帶著Caillou這愛說話的小蘿蔔頭，八成也靜不下心來看，說不定還會被「請」出來…

真不懂！為什麼所有的曠世鉅作總輪不到高雄，真不公平，雖被譽為「文化沙漠」，但所有「作古的」都不來，我們又如何提升自己的水平呢？

來不了！去不成！那就只好聽聽「Vincent」這首描述Van Gogh的歌曲，自我陶醉在這些畫作中囉~~

Vincent / Don Mclean
Stary stary nignt
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 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 *

Stary stary night
Flaming flowers that brightly laze
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

repeat *

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was
Left in sight on that
Stary stary 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

Stary stary 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 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 your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen
They're not listening still
Perhaps they never will