Noel Harrison: The Windmills Of Your Mind | Song-Factsheet

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Song «The Windmills Of Your Mind» von Noel Harrison.

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Veröffentlichungsdaten: 1968 (Single), 1968 (Soundtrack Album)
Label: Reprise RA 0758, United Artists UAS 5182
Songwriter Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman & Michel Legrand
Produktion: Jimmy Bowen
Genre: Pop - Progressivepop - Baroquepop

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Diser Standard der 1960er Jahre kam aus dem Film «The Thomas Crown Affair» von 1968. Er gewann 1969 den Oscar in der Kategorie «Best Original Song».

Personen und Querverweise

Noel Harrison
Alan Bergman
Marilyn Bergman
Michel Legrand
Jimmy Bowen

Lyrics

Round like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending nor 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 of 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 you can 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 Or the ripples from a pebble Someone tosses in a stream Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes of 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 you 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 A circle in a spiral A wheel within a wheel Never ending nor beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind