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From the United Artists Motion Pictare "THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR

THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND

(THEME FROM "THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR)
Lyric by Music by
MARILYN and ALAN BERGMAN MICHEL LEGRAND

Round like a cir - cle in a spi - ral, like - a wheel with - in a

Mind! Like a tun - nel that you fol - low to a tun - nel of its

I wheel, Nev- e r end-ing o r be

own, Down a hol- low t o a
- gin-ning on an ev - e r spin-ning
c a v - e r n where the sun h a s nev - er
r e e l , Like a snow- ball down a
shone, Like a door that keeps re-

- loon, Like a c a r - ou - sel that's turn- ing run-ning rings a-round the
I moun-tain, o r
volv - ing i n
a c a r - ni -val bal
a half f o r - got-ten d r e a m , O r the r i p - ples f r o m a peb- ble some-one toss-es in a

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} Like a clock whose hands a r e sweep-ing past the mb-utes of its face. And the world is like an

II ap -ple whirl- ing s i - lent - ly in space, Like the c i r - cles that you find in The Wind-mills Of Your

1. I Mind! Keys that jin-gle in your pock-et, words that jan-gle in your head, Why did sum-mer go so

I sand.
I
h the sound of dis-tant drum-miog just the fin-gers
- of your hand? P i e t u r e s hang-ing in a
 fac - e s , but to whom do they be-
I hall -way and the frag-ment of a song. Half re -mem-bered names and

o - v e r you were sud-den - ly a - ware That the au - tumn leaves were

I long? When you knew that i t
(Girl)When you knew that i t was
was
o - ver in the au-tumn of good - bves. For a mo - ment vou could

I poco a poco ritajd. I

-or
I turn- ing to the col
not r e - call the col
of
- o r of his
her hair!
eves! Like a cir - cle in a spi - ral, like a wheel with- in a

1 wheel, Nev - e r end - ing or be - gin - ning on an ev - er spin-ning reel, 'AS the im- a - ges un-

I wind, Like the cir - c l e s that you find in The Wind-mills Of Your Mind!
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