Can anyone find me the words to the song "Windmills of your Mind" or what album I can find a copy of it on?


Cat

Hi Cat,

Round like a circle in a spiral like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending on 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 color 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


The original comes from the album of the same name by Dusty Springfield, IIRC.

Phil

Thank you soooooo much. I really love that song and I knew most of the words but had forgotten some.

Cat

The original was originally done for the Thomas Crown Affair movie in 1968. If you want the original version, you can find it on the soundtrack, which is still in print. I like the original better myself.