THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND
Theme from the film "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968)
(Alan & Marilyn Bergman / Michel Legrand)

Noel Harrison - 1968
Dusty Springfield - 1969
Sting - 1999

Also recorded by: Ronnie Aldrich; Archipelago; John Arpin;
Dorothy Ashby; George Benson; Bruno Bertone Orch.; 
Acker Bilk; Ron Blake; Peter Breiner; Paige Claire; 
Anne Clark; Petula Clark; Freddy Cole; Mary Foster Conklin;
Ray Conniff; Vic Damone; George Davidson; Neil Diamond;
Val Doonican; Percy Faith; Art Farmer; José Feliciano;
Laura Fygi; James Galway; Dizzy Gillespie; Earl Grant;
Las Guitarras del Renacimiento; Terry Hall; Sally Harmon;
Joe Harnell; Allan Harris; Carla Helmbrecht; 
Hill-Wiltschinsky Guitar Duo; Jack Jones; 
Anita Kerr Singers; King's Singers; Rolf Kuhn;
Michel Legrand; The Lettermen; Barbara Lewis; 
Abbey Lincoln; London Philharmonic Orch.; Mike Longo;
Carmen Lundy; Henry Mancini; Mantovani; ..... and others.


Round,
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on its face
And the world is like an apple
Spinning silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half-forgotten dream
Like the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on its face
And the world is like an apple
Spinning silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly?
Was it something that I said?
Lovers walk along a shore
And leave their footprints in the sand
Was the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
Or the fragment of a song
Half-remembered names and faces
but to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the colour of her hair?
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind