... which I believe is from 'The Thomas Crown Affair' soundtrack. But I can't remember the name of the singer (Dusty Springfield comes to mind/but maybe not.) And I suspect I am forgetting a verse. If anyone knows of a site where one can search song lyrics/do drop me a line. In my head/I keep hearing Jewel singing it. I imagine it as part of the soundtrack for yet another movie I will probably never direct. Wonder what Jewel costs these days... And who wrote 'Windmills' anyway? Doesn't ASCAP have a website?

Sometimes memory serves me correctly. Sometimes it slays me. And sometimes it amazes me what stuff one can find in the Wide World of Web! And how the lyrics from a song you heard more than 20 years ago linger inside yr heart & still evoke the same rush of emotions after so long. There are only 3 songs I've ever heard that I wd make a deal with the Devil to have I'd penned the lyrics & music to. This is one of them. (from "The Thomas Crown Affair") Music by Michel Legrand Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman Performed by Dusty Springfield 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 on its face And the world is like an apple Spinning 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 Like the ripples from a pebble Someone tosses in a stream Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes on its face And the world is like an apple Spinning 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 I said? Lovers walk along a shore And leave their footprints in the sand Was 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 Were you suddenly aware That the autumn leaves were turning To the color 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 Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind... Appropriated from http://www.lyrics.ch/ ... give me once chance to slow dance on New Year's Eve to that song w/a marvelous man & I will die a happy woman.

Funny. That song has always haunted me in words and tune. It is impossible not to "hear" it coursing through my brain when flying and skydiving. It is particularly strong when flying through clouds where I am "in and out" or at night.

Great, now I've got that tune running through my head. I don't know the words, so I always put "scooby dooby dooby dooby dooby dooby dooby doo, scooby dooby dooby dooby dooby dooby dooby doo" to it.

Heh. i discovered this song a week ago since i have it 4 piano. they only give me verse 1 n 2 to repeat tho. it's kind of a spooooooky song. odd, and haunting in a way, but nonetheless, nice. o yeah, i m 9 3/4 years old!!!

On the film soundtrack, the song is sung by Noel Harrison, NOT Dusty Springfield!

cool i love this song too, wouldn't mind having the music for it. Well now i have it in my head, so i'll begin to learn the words.

That song hauted me since the first moment I saw The Thomas Crown affair, any way I just wanted to say that its performed by Sting, and is the perfect sound track of some scenes of my life.

Yes, you're ALL right about that one. Windmills is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever written. I'm so happy to have rediscovered it in a new (released September 6, 2004) version by the UNBEATABLE Alison Moyet. The album, Voices, is a gem and on it Ms Moyet has given us the ABSOLUTELY BEST 'Windmills' yet. "ROUND, like a circle in a spiral..."

"sitting naked on the train"?

In the original (and to me ONLY) "Thomas Crown," Windmills was sung by Noel Harrison (yes, Rex's son). I can't believe I don't remember Sting's version which I'm sure I must have heard. But for me it's often the case that the first version is the one permanently etched in my mind and the one against I measure all the later versions.

...Lost,the first version of a song is the best,allways,dont let enyone tell you otherwise...you SHURE Sting did a version of that????

...lost,v knows huge amounts of music,going back to 1920,tell me what you want.v try to give.

...or not,depends how I feel.

The music is by Michel Legrand and it was originally by Noel Harrison. Sting's version was in the remake and it did not have the whimsicality nor the swirly, slightly psychedelic flavour of the original.Dusty, Alison M.,and I believe Elvis Costello have also covered it, but none have equalled Noel. Perhaps that's why he recorded nothing else!

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