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12 Aug 99 - 09:50 AM (#104268) Subject: windmills of your mind From: tomlor@yahoo.com Hello again: I´m just one of those guys who sings when he walks, and I can never remember the words. You´ve helped me out before, so I´m back for more. They´re making a new version of the Thomas Crown Affair, and it´s got me trying and failing to sing The Windmills of your Mind. A beautiful and haunting tune, but it would be more beautiful if I could remember how to sing it. Can anyone give me the words to this one? Thanks a heap. |
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12 Aug 99 - 10:49 AM (#104289) Subject: RE: windmills of your mind From: Wolfgang could it be this from http://www.rit.edu/~kbk4834/swingout/albuminfo/lyrics/splendidlyrics.html#The Windmills of Your Mind Wolfgang |
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12 Aug 99 - 10:59 PM (#104552) Subject: RE: windmills of your mind From: Malcolm Douglas Yes, that's it. Written and sung, if I remember correctly, by Noel Harrison (Son of Rex). I bought the single, but heaven knows where it is now. Malcolm |
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12 Aug 99 - 11:04 PM (#104556) Subject: RE: windmills of your mind From: katlaughing Wow, I thought I posted them to here. I emailed them, I know, right after he started this thread. we had a nice little chat about remakes. You are right, it was Noel Harrison. This is weird. Is this one of those duplicate threads?? There mustc have been two of them. I am off to do a forum search to make sure I'm not losing my mind!**BG** |
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12 Aug 99 - 11:08 PM (#104557) Subject: RE: windmills of your mind From: Susan A-R Hmm, maybe I should see the remake. I never did manage to stay awake through a drive-in movie and that's where I alledgedly saw the Thomas Crown Affair. I do remember the song, with that melody that does seem to spiral back in on itself, and those very odd lyrics. How come I seem toget more um straightforward stuff stuck in my head like Up Up with People? (AAARGH!) Susan A-R |
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12 Aug 99 - 11:17 PM (#104563) Subject: Lyr Add: WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND (Bergman/Legrand) From: katlaughing I was at a very impressionable age when the original came out and totally head over heels for Steve McQueen, so that does make me prejudiced against a remake:-) This is weird. Maybe Joe is messing with my mind.:-) I was trying to beat his response time. Went back to my email and this is what I said at 9:36am: This is from one of my favourite movies. I don't know if I will like anyone else doing it other than Steve McQueen! Anyway, I posted the lyrics on the thread you started, also. Here is a good site in which to find these types of lyrics, it is called Lyrics World: http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/html/main_index/index.html THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND Sung by Noel Harrison 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 ^^ |
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12 Aug 99 - 11:25 PM (#104565) Subject: RE: windmills of your mind From: Lonesome EJ OK, I'm the guy who likes McArthur Park and, yes, I like that one too. |
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12 Aug 99 - 11:29 PM (#104568) Subject: RE: windmills of your mind From: Susan A-R Now wait a minute!!!! this is NOT like MacArthur Park. Alas, it isn't Rod McKuen either. Does anyone actually know/have access to any Rod material so that we can get Catspaw's literary opinions??
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13 Aug 99 - 01:47 AM (#104604) Subject: RE: windmills of your mind From: WyoWoman Omigod, Susan -- I was IN Up with People. Not for long -- I sort of ended up thinking some of the mucky mucks were, mmm, taking the kids and their parents for a bit of a ride, moneywise. And I got in trouble for sitting next to a GUY, fer gawdsakes, on the bus. But, hey, I got three months touring the U.S. in a bus with a bunch of very perky kids. Quit just before they went to Italy, idiot that I am. And forever and ever and ever I have that darned song, the Perky Anthem (Up, UP with pee-PUL, you meet 'em whereever you goooo...) imbedded in my memory, which now has reasserted itself after lying dormant in my brain for 30 YEARS!!!! ACCCKKKK. (I came straight home from Up with People and became a hippie -- an Oklahoma hippie, but a hippie nonetheless. Getting stoned and doing really loud Janis Joplin-esque music was tonic after all that blasted enthusiasm.) ww ww |
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13 Aug 99 - 09:29 AM (#104664) Subject: RE: windmills of your mind From: Peter T. "Windmills of your Mind" always made me want to go and throw up, partly from vertigo. yours, Peter T. |
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13 Aug 99 - 12:20 PM (#104711) Subject: RE: windmills of your mind From: Lonesome EJ LOL at Peter!Remind me never to get on thr Roller Coaster with you! LEJ |