Windmills of Your Mind

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.

Like a living, growing planet

spinning silently in space.

Oh the whirling thoughts 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 tossed into a stream.

Lovers walk along the ocean,

joining hearts and holding hands,

as the tide comes in behind,

erasing footprints in the sand.

Oh the whirling thoughts you find

in the windmills of your mind!

Toys that jingle in boy's pocket,

words that jangle in man's head

Why did summer go so quickly?

Now you’re living!

Now you’re dead!

And those windmills keep on turning

as we shuffle off this coil.

And the bardos that they conjure

feel so real our souls will boil.

Then we’re born again forgetting,

like a fragment of a song.

Half remembered names and faces,

but to whom do they belong?

Though the windmills pose as helpers,

they bind us to the wheel

of sweet dreams and dreaded nightmares

‘till we wake up to the Real.

'Till then. . .

thoughts turning in a spiral,

like a wheel within a wheel,

never ending or beginning,

on an ever spinning reel.

As the images unwind. . .

ah, the whirling dreams you find

in the windmills of your mind!

Alan Bergman (September 11, 1925 – July 17, 2025) and Marilyn Keith Bergman (née Katz; November 10, 1928 – January 8, 2022) were an American songwriting duo who wrote the lyrics to "Windmills of Your Mind".

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P.S. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)