Windmills of your Mind

Windmills of your Mind from the Thomas Crown Affair

Round like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending nor beginning
on an ever spinning wheel

Like a snowball down the 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 of its space
And the world is like an apple
whirling 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 shown

Like a door that keeps revolving
in a half forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble
someone tosses in a string

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
past the minutes on its face.
And the world is like an apple
whirling silently on its 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 you said

Lovers walk along the shore
and leave their footprints in the sand
It’s the sound of distant drumming
just the fingers of your hands
pictures hanging in a hallway
and the fragments of a song
half remembered names and faces
but to whom do they belong
when you knew that it was over
you were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
to the color of her hair

It’s a circle in a spiral
a wheel within a wheel
Never ending nor beginning
in an ending wheel
As the images unwind
like the circles that you find
in the windmills of your mind.

Summer love may be heartbreaking to one partner who really falls in love with the other .