Windmills Of Your Mind
Round, like a circle in a spiralLike a wheel within a wheelNever ending or beginningOn an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountainOr a carnival balloonLike a carousel that's burningRunning rings around the room
Like a clock whose hands are sweepingPast the minutes of its faceAnd the world is like an appleWhirling silently in space
Like the circles that you findIn the windmills of your mind
Like a tunnel that you followTo a tunnel of its ownDown a hollow to a cavernWhere the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolvingIn a half-forgotten dreamOr the ripples from a pebbleSomeone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweepingPast the minutes of its faceAnd the world is like an appleWhirling silently in space
Like the circles that you findIn the windmills of your mind
Keys that jingle in your pocketWords that jangle in your headWhy does summer go so quickly?Was it something that you said?
Lovers walk along the shoreAnd leave their footprints in the sandIs the sound of distant drummingJust the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallwayIn the fragment of this songHalf-remembered names and facesBut to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was overWere you suddenly awareThat the autumn leaves were turningTo the color of her hair?
Like a circle in a spiralLike a wheel within a wheelNever ending or beginningOn an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwindLike the circles that you findIn the windmills of your mind
Pictures hanging in a hallwayIn the fragment of this songHalf-remembered names and facesBut to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was overWere you suddenly awareThat the autumn leaves were turningTo the color of her hair?
Like a circle in a spiralLike a wheel within a wheelNever ending or beginningOn an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwindLike the circles that you findIn the windmills of your mind