Windmills Of Your Mind
Round,Like a circle in a spiralLike a wheel within a wheelNever ending or beginningOn an ever-spinning reelLike a snowball down a mountainOr a carnival balloonLike a carousel that's turningRunning rings around the moonLike a clock whose hands are sweepingPast the minutes of its faceAnd the world is like an appleRolling silently in spaceLike 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 shoneLike a door that keeps revolvingIn a half-forgotten dreamAll 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 appleRolling silently in spaceLike the circles that you findIn the windmills of your mind
Keys that jingle in your pocketWords that jangle in your headWhy did summer go so quickly?Was it something that you said?Lovers walk along the shoreLeave their footprints in the sandIs the sound of distant drummingJust the fingers of your hand?Pictures hanging in a hallwayOr the fragment of this songHalf-remembered names and facesBut to whom do they belong?When you knew that it was overYou Were suddenly awareThat the autumn leaves were turningTo the colour of his hair?
Like a circle in a spiralLike a wheel within a wheelNever ending or beginningOn an ever-spinning reelAs the images unwindLike the circles that you findIn the windmills of your mind