The 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 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 that you 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 spaceLike 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,Is 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 you were suddenly aware,

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That the autumn leaves were turning to the colour of her hair,

A circle in a spiral, 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.

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"Sway"

When marimba rhythms start to playDance with me, make me swayLike a lazy ocean hugs the shoreHold me close, sway me more

Like a flower bending in the breezeBend with me, sway with easeWhen we dance you have a way with meStay with me, sway with me

Other dancers may be on the floorDear, but my eyes will see only youOnly you have that magic techniqueWhen we sway I go weak

I can hear the sounds of violinsLong before it beginsMake me thrill as only you know howSway me smooth, sway me now

Other dancers may be on the floorDear, but my eyes will see only youOnly you have that magic techniqueWhen we sway I go weak

I can hear the sounds of violins

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Long before it beginsMake me thrill as only you know howSway me smooth, sway me now

When marimba rhythms start to playDance with me, make me swayLike a lazy ocean hugs the shoreHold me close, sway me more

Like a flower bending in the breezeBend with me, sway with easeWhen we dance you have a way with meStay with me, sway with me

When marimbas start to playHold me close, make me swayLike a lazy ocean hugs the shoreHold me close, sway me more

Like a flower bending in the breezeBend with me, sway with easeWhen we dance you have a way with meStay with me, sway with me

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