Windmills Of Your Mind

Cm

[Verse 1]
                    Cm
Like a circle in a spiral,
                     Gm
or a wheel within a wheel,
                   G
Never ending or beginning
                     Cm
on an ever-spinning reel,
                         C
Like a snowball down a mountain
          C/E    Fm
or a carnival balloon,
           Ab         Bb
Or a carousel that's turning,
                          Eb
running rings around the moon,
                    Gm          Ab
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
                         Dm
past the minutes on its face,
                          G
And the world is like an apple,
                      F#dim
whirling silently in space,
                            G
Like the circles that you find
                          Cm
in the windmills of your mind.


[Verse 2]
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Like a tunnel that you follow
                   Gm
to a tunnel of its own,
                    G
Down a hollow to a cavern
                          Cm
where the sun has never shone,
                          C
Like a door that keeps revolving
                C/E   Fm
in a half-forgotten dream,
                Ab      Bb
Or the ripples from a pebble
                      Eb
someone tosses in a stream,
                     G        Ab
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping,
                         Dm
past the minutes on its face,
                          G
And the world is like an apple,
                      F#dim
whirling silently in space,
                           G
Like the circles that you find
                          Cm
in the windmills of your mind.

[Verse 3]
                          Cm
Keys that jingle in your pocket,
                           Fm
words that jangle in your head.
                        Bb
Why did summer go so quickly?
                           Eb
Was it something that you said?
                        Eb/Db
Lovers walk along the shoreline,
                               Ab
leave their footprints in the sand.
                           D
Was the sound of distant drumming
                          Gm
just the fingers on your hand?
                        C
Pictures hanging in a hallway
                        Fm
and the fragments of a song
                 Ab       Bb
Half-remembered names and faces,
                        Gm
but to whom do they belong?
                           Ab
When you knew that it was over
                      Dm
in the autumn of goodbyes
Cm/Eb G/D    Cm               G/B
For a moment you could not recall
                  G
the color of his eyes.

[Interlude]
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[Coda]
                   Cm
Like a circle in a spiral,
                      G
or a wheel within a wheel,

Never ending or beginning
                    F#dim
on an ever-spinning reel
                 Eb
As the images unwind,
                           G
Like the circles that you find
                          Cm
In the windmills of your mind.