Windmills of Your Mind

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 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 stream

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes on its face

And the world is like an apple whirling 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 a 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 his hair

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 the 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 in the Autumn of goodbyes

For a moment you could not recall the colour of his eyes

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

(Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)