Windmills of Your Mind Alison Moyet - Lyrics

Sorry for typos/incorrect lyrics! :(
Lyrics Also Below:
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 carousell 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 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 walking along a shore,
Leave their footprints in the sand
Is the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
And a 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 color 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
I do not own this song!

[@javierarreaza5601]

I do not know if anyone else has noticed this, but the use in this arrangement of a song about the mind that spins almost uncontrollably of the glass harmonica, an instrument that in order to produce a sound must physically spin, is both, symbolically powerful and hauntingly beautiful. The arranger commands all my respect.

[@comanchedase]

Ufff...that was tiresome

[@mattam3372]

Special supra merci beaucoup !! pour la lumière donc vous avec le secret de nous revelez la chance de revisité cette oeuvre des plus mages es-tueuses

[@happierabroad]

Yes and it's also a great metaphor for the alchemical nature and cycles of life and the universe too. Supposedly light and time work in a spiral, not linear as we assume. (Look up Walter Russell) So this song is very metaphysical too. It also refects the Buddhist and Hindu concept of the cycle of life with no beginning or end either.

[@James-xm9oq]

This version is very much hers. I'm shocked how heartbreaking it affects me. Stuned.

[@marialourdesnavidad2137]

True

[@marcalexanderraison2724]

When poetry is set in music, this is what happens. Magnificent.

[@francanino4190]

Lyrics of this beautiful song was from Mrs. Marilyn Bergman, died last week. She was 93 y/o. She also gave us THE WAY WE WERE and songs from YENTL. RIP

[@fernandospriano1183]

Great song great singer ❤️👍

[@user-ev5od3nv2d]

A masterpiece and the best version. Alison Moyet what a voice

[@reyvanbueno9298]

This song is hauntingly beautiful, that so many artists made their version.

[@bobbychurchill5627]

Alison Moyet ❤

[@maladyfatimalacasa4582]

like my number one superstar miss nora aunor, it's a amazing voice before??? i like very much his voice,, 🥰🥰💟💟💟💟💟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@cocosoliongco]

this song should be remembered even for millions of years

[@mandrakefrommanchester3033]

Beautiful poetic lyrics by a beautiful talented singer. Alison remains a great vocalist. Brilliant song!

[@siyabeanland9777]

This song brings tears to my eyes. Sang it in the school choir 26 years ago, only now does it make sense. Thank you to the music ❤

[@anne-marnning2667]

Had quite forgotten this wonderful song. Something; can`t say what, suddenly brought it to mind. Far too good to be left behind. So now it`s back. Love it!

[@3bebles]

Truly FANTASTIC! Hauntingly beautiful, emotionally evocative... This has not aged and never will. The original Michel Legrand (RIP) 1978 song was in French: LES MOULINS DE MON COEUR... In both languages a real masterpiece which is why it has so many covers and cannot be forgotten.

[@akiss9960]

Don't be sorry for any typos etc,oak croissant!!! This one is one of the best songs of the twentieth century performed by the great voice of Alison Moyet! I bow to you for your choice! Thank you!

[@oakcroissant]

wow okay you are!!! Real sweet!!! Thank you ❤️

[@duchessenathalie4754]

The movie ‘’Nine perfect strangers’’ brought me here. That’s my first time hearing this song. The lyrics and the music are simply masterly 🙏🏾

[@edavaroglu2388]

Just because of the serie I am right here listening🙏🙏

[@farahshbeeb7954]

Omg same!!! This is a masterpiece!

[@johnweir3168]

The song was a top 40 hit in 1969 sung by Dusty Springfield. There is also an up tempo version of the song from the Muppet Show.

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

from my youth…a favourite and also a great bit of symbolic poetry.

[@baywoody1]

I love this version! Had the pleasure of hearing her sing it live

[@ginapereiraredilla6009]

What is the meaning of the song?

[@klausoshaunacey8429]

The way each lyric is almost randomly rushed and slowed makes it feel more like a poem than a song, it’s really enthralling.

[@livinglifetothefullest22]

My dad's favourite! Thinking of you greatest dad ever on our planet!❤❤❤❤❤

[@neriksen]

I certainly hope that you read this. I listened to your music in the early years and by sheer accident after trying to remember a song my father used to play in his Jensen Interceptor we meet again in a strange way I feel that we have aged gracefully, thank you for your beautiful voice and your beautiful choices.

[@3bebles]

Truly FANTASTIC! Hauntingly beautiful, emotionally evocative... This has not aged and never will. The original Michel Legrand (RIP) 1978 song was in French: LES MOULINS DE MON COEUR... In both languages a real masterpiece which is why it has so many covers and cannot be forgotten.

[@martaelenaariza893]

Bellisima interpretacion. Hermosa melodia y poema!!! Gracias!!!

[@VIPER410]

A beautiful song sung so beautifully

[@perlarecato188]

It is rare to find a song that reflects one's own life but this one does: it is my life all over again in all its poignancy and its passion, all the doubts and its half-hearted hope.

[@pepitocelestino9968]

Beautifully said Ms Perla...

[@honestovillareal2549]

This was the theme in the film "The Thomas Crown Affair" starring Steve McQueen and Faye Donaway. I've enjoyed watching that film.

[@WallFlower_YT]

I have a musicbox shaped like a windmill that plays this song. It used to be my great uncles before it was given to me. I always wanted to know what the song it played was called, and truly this is one of the most beautiful songs ive heard

[@ritageraghty4404]

DogeMan 15, you must be glad, now that you have the name of the song. It is nice to given the musicbox as as a piece of family history.

[@reic0002]

try noel harrison

[@reic0002]

and then deep breath, Joe Dassin; L'ete Indien.

[@cococarpizo2735]

I like this song with johny Mathis very much

[@kenthuang436]

About six months ago I finally found a copper windmill music box that plays this song after four years of searching. I only found them on eBay and thought that the shipping cost was not worth it as a few listings had the shipping costing more than the music box itself. I also have a porcelain doll that plays the song as well.

[@nyalltrolls5767]

One of the first pieces i learned on guitar. The line 1.09 "like a tunnel that you follow, to a tunnel of it's own. Down a hollow to a cavern, where the sun has never shone" has always stuck with me! mind you, the lyrics of this entire song. Describes the thought process i go through, as an adult, when I'm trying to understand someones suffering, who's been controlled and used by others! ILY always.

[@vesnasimichen2357]

Trovo questa riflessione molto interessante e originale. Sto pensando spesso a sofferenza di altre persone e specialmente adesso con questa nuova guerra...Ma raramente si parla di persone che sono semplicemente usate. So che questo che dirò adesso sarà tutt'altro che popolare, ma e' momento di essere onesti: mio primo pensiero a 24 febbraio non è andato a civili, neanche a bambini. È andato a soldati, a TUTTI soldati, anche Russi !! E ho sprofondato in un pianto inarrestabile...Perché una trentina anni fa quando guerra ai Balcani si è ormai aviata verso la fine e profughi senne sono andati mi sono trovata con parecchi reduci e con loro disperato bisogno di parlare, di " confessare " ,non tanto cose che gli hanno fatto, ma cose che loro hanno fatto...Parlavano e piangevano...Tanti di loro erano così giovani... Nyall mi ha con suo pensiero riportato a questi ricordi e a riflessione come gestirli. E lo ringrazio. Adesso ritorniamo a questa eccellente musica e poesia che ci riporta a nostri ricordi più intimi, a nostalgia che riguarda solo noi, sopratutto se siamo aviati verso autunno

[@nyalltrolls5767]

@@vesnasimichen2357 partì verso l'autunno. che incredibile raccolta di parole! non c'è bisogno di ringraziarmi mai! ... ma sei il benvenuto, lo stesso! stiamo solo cercando di superare la vita felicemente. ma non è sempre una costante ed è in questi momenti che hai bisogno che la tua gente, la tua comunità e la tua cerchia ristretta te lo ricordino. Che siamo in questo, insieme! per "riflettere" nella poesia e nella musica. vernici, una bella immagine. occuparsi

[@vesnasimichen2357]

Grazie comunque per sua vicinanza, perché ci siamo parecchi che non hanno più la sua gente, la sua comunità. Io sono (ero ?) Jugoslava e Jugoslavia non c'è Quindi ritorniamo a musica e poesia:mi sento "Luke an apple whirling lonely in the space".Qualche volta e anche gradevole. Ciao

[@jennoble6968]

I have always loved this song sung by many. I did not realise there was such an instrument as a glass harmonica let alone that I was listening to one, thank you Mathew B clearly a purveyor of music and I will listen to your recommendations. Thanks again. I do so love every version of this song..........

[@shoreham1982]

My tribute to my husband

[@thamerrayesjr.8972]

Came here from “Them” trailer.

[@peterguerrero8811]

Lol same

[@beenanair9008]

haha me too..

[@alisagreene8107]

Best version I've heard yet!

[@Cyrano3372]

The one of STING sounds better

[@jeetratadia181]

Exquisite music! I can Imagine a man clutching a tomb in the graveyard at night! Such happy depression 😞 😃

[@stavroslee9310]

Then you haven't heard Dusty Springfield...

[@wowkizz]

i love this song. when i hear it, i have to cry. thanks

[@emelyngarcia4952]

Beautiful voice

[@TheLiamster]

This sounds really good.

[@happierabroad]

This song and its lyrics are a great poetic metaphor for the alchemical nature and cycles of life and the universe too. Supposedly light and time work in a spiral, not linear as we assume. (Look up Walter Russell) So this song is very metaphysical too. It also refects the Buddhist and Hindu concept of the cycle of life with no beginning or end either.

[@Blaisesongs]

Best version out there of this song!

[@matthewb54]

Such a beautiful arrangement by Anne Dudley. Who else would have used the glass harmonica like that? A stroke of genius! I bought the "Voice" album on the strength of this song, and I wasn't disappointed. If you get the chance, listen to "God give me strength" and "La chanson des vieux amants".

[@FanVidder72]

I also love This House - it's beautiful, but heartbreaking.

[@albertjohnson4658]

Thank you for your contributions

[@toulam2902]

I love it!!

[@noormaher364]

لا بداية ولا نهاية :( ♡

[@motormouth155]

Classic movie McQueen and Dunaway love Moyet's version.

[@marketgarden190]

Love this song untill today . It makes tears running on the face

[@reic0002]

I love the translation "tears running on the face" - so very apt

[@1968tukta]

Some of the lyrics are different from many other versions, but for me it made the song is more understandable.

[@augustalavenderblue7353]

RIP Michael LeGrand. This song, Le Chanson Des Jumelles, Le Chanson De Maxence, and I Will Wait For You are my favorites by him, but all his work was exemplary.

[@3bebles]

Absolument! C'est incroyable si peu de gens attribuent ce chef d'oeuvre à Michel Legrand - son créateur! Il est bon de rétablir la genèse du poème et de sa musique et d'en profiter pour recommander à ceux qui l'aiment tant une plus large et plus profonde exploration de toute l'oeuvre musicale de son auteur.

[@tiigrikutsu7288]

Very nice gor my feelinga for you!

[@lavoxii]

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 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, Is the sound of distant drumming just the fingers of your hand? Pictures hanging in a hallway and the fragment of a song, Half-remembered names of faces but to whom do they belong? When you knew that it was over you were suddenly aware, That the autumn leaves were turning to the colour of her hair, 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 ( feel) like the circles that you find, In the windmills of your mind.

[@leagroot8532]

I love this song but weirdly I seem to remember a line that went "And the autumn leaves were turning to the colour of her hair" I had the feeling that the reference to Autumn in the song is of a time of our life where we are aging and the mind is becoming forgetful.

[@stanleymays2710]

Song of someone going insane !

[@aliciacendana8925]

I also like this version!

[@jennoble6968]

La chanson des vieux amants"...............the Song of Old Lovers is a song I could listen forever ....... Micheline Van Hautem does the best rendition of this song Jacques Brel would be proud of her..........I saw her live at the Melbourne Arts Festival and she is one hell of a performer.....mesmerising performer SPELL BOUND BY HER TOTALLY

[@3bebles]

Yes, but Brel is another story... Do you know the musical " Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris..." with the incredible translations and adaptations of Mortimer Shumann who was a great friend of Brel. For me Brel's most poignant song is "Les Vieux/The Old Ones" because I am getting there and the clock here is speaking to ME too... in the original French! "Qui dit OUI, qui dit NON, qui dit JE VOUS ATTENDS." Now... where Brel's song concentrates on the slowing down until the end, this Legrand song recalls the vortex of life and the perpetuation of love. It makes me think of the 1995 film "Bridges of Madison County" (Meryl Streep/ Clint Eastwood) where the children eventually refuel for Love at the very soul of their mother and of her brief and powerful secret love story!

[@haneenmohamed1503]

لا بداية ولا نهاية☹❤

[@lulurusbandi1279]

ThanksForSharing 😇

[@baroquendmz2053]

fine. Moyet doesn't do anything outside perfection...however, the song demands a note of desperation: it's best performed as someone clutching at time, slipping away from you

[@mrt8905]

I too forgot the amazing vocal range of Alison Moyet. I agree that there is no obvious story to her cover. But her voice is lovely enough to just enjoy. I don't know who wrote this song. From the first time I heard it (sung by a man) it sounded clever but rambling, like great lyrics but confusion as to what point it was making, or was the point confusion? Anyone know who wrote it & its story?

[@amineda4299]

@@mrt8905 ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/windmills-of-your-mind.html read this article to understand

[@oakcroissant]

No problem, I also find it quite moving. :)

[@tiigrikutsu7288]

Very nice for us my only one!

[@MaryjaneMonarch]

I may have this on vinyl for BARBARA. I didn't even look at her titles.

[@alansavoy3891]

My god I ❤️ this song 🎧

[@anvidicebro699]

I like this song

[@jeetratadia181]

If that world is an apple, then the sun should burn it

[@MrEdess]

Alfa Romeo 4C at its finest hours...

[@whyyyzx]

grand tour

[@Summer-kb2dm]

killer - great song - strikes me down into the core. Sad.

[@FishHeadSalad]

Alas...the source of the well known uttered words in a Vicki Lawrence skit on the Carol Burnett show.

[@codedlAnguage]

Beyond beauty feeding back forwards 888 😊

[@ghaith452]

Grand tour anybody?

[@whyyyzx]

YESSSS

[@memy4460]

That was this song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3y5apWBYqh1jtE

[@LowPockets8619]

Yep. Grand tour season one brought me here 😊

[@oizdrives3580]

the Alfa 4C

[@codedlAnguage]

Yes 😊❤😊❤😊❤😊

[@teeirving8464]

Heard it on a Hulu show called 9 strangers

[@dragmyre]

pulchritudinous!

[@jana1682]

لا بداية ولا نهاية..

[@ESMIX65]

Merci Michel Legrand

[@dianeravellette4102]

Who wrote this?

[@ninarbeladra2753]

Im here because of "Them"

[@egprbell]

Same

[@saangel5158]

Who is here in 2020?

[@killer.6956]

والله حلوة الأغنية

[@chrissachris8026]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@anastaciosantos2105]

Listening,2020 1037 pm

[@kostaskolleris4649]

❤️

[@hta3139]

Come here after watching dead cows and a broken weighbridge.

[@ausar125]

Lmaoo i Love this refference XD

[@michaeldillon3113]

Anyone know anything about the creation of this deep deep song ???

[@allalone5810]

This is my favourite song since I just born I think,until I am going to die.

[@vineethkumar5104]

👏

[@blakelee111]

this was somehow about me :(

[@souslou]

Anyone here from “them” trailer ?

[@andrewpollock7427]

listen to it at faster speeds

[@yogaforthematurewoman]

This piece describes how a Kundalini Awakened person feels.

[@renetorres1896]

Will. Smith movie Focus brought me here haha..

[@eddiedeleon2425]

does really moon affects our behavioural feelings, THE THINKER

[@eddiedeleon2425]

it knew the song Yesterday when i was young but this renditions so beautifully blended with softness but strong characteristic

[@renatekl]

Marvelous song - marvelous voice. But - please - it is the "riffle of a pebble" and not "the pebble of a pebble".

[@oakcroissant]

Hi! I've looked at a couple of sites, and it looks like the consensus is: "the ripples from a pebble", and that's what I have in the video (at 1:28). Thanks!

[@marialourdesnavidad2137]

Atik atik ba????

[@reic0002]

I need to be downstairs at Ronnie's

[@miraculousmisery772]

I came from Breakfast on Pluto...sorry.

[@cherangelo2756]

I'm would like to I a version of this that's been running through my mind..need a few musicians who can think out a the box .flute..piano..violin and guitar..my guitar was destroyed by a temperamental imbecile

[@marialourdesnavidad2137]

An islands of diversity or a snake like island. When you like to plant a seed for food for our dining table, you must study its nutrients it may gave to your beautiful kids. Or buying a useful product for a family delights while at home as a loving mother. No children eats paper towels either!!!!

[@marialourdesnavidad2137]

Even a Manila police Dino, a funeral parlor business operator. I wonder what kind of a person our president adviser came from. Because of political ambitions, his alliance must be scrutinized in performance. I dont know how to describe our 1st lady, never at my age seen a senior lady with thin hands and bulging eyes like robotic figure, yet, she claimed as a lawyer. She needs a palace in England or a castle in Japan. There are many beaches in Phl. No need of a rolls royce grand entrance. Barefoot is better!!!!

[@user-nf4qq7xt2k]

В общем не будет никаких метеоритов, ни такого размера, ни другого , это все остатки каких-то искусственных летательных аппаратов

[@julieannepatterson]

too slow, I like Noel Harrison's version much better....Or the Muppet's version :p

[@johngranato2673]

French Song

[@glennward6452]

Listen to the jonny mattis version A whole lot better

[@hashimalsharif1793]

Who came from grand tour

[@Michelle-wo9xb]

lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol

[@clarerobinson4866]

pooooooooo

[@noellaaelbrecht2111]

L

[@dannycoffey1897]

cheesy

[@alfredoz3017]

wrong lyrics