[竹内まりや「風のささやき (THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND)」歌詞]

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 of its face

And the world is
Like an apple Whirling
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 shown

Like a door that
Keeps revolving
In a half-forgotten dream

Or the ripples from a
Pebble Someone
Tosses in a stream

Like a clock whose hands
Are sweeping Past the
Minutes of its face

And the world is
Like an apple
Whirling 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 you said?

Lovers walk along the
Shore And leave their
Footprints in the sand

Is the sound of distant
Drumming Just the
Fingers of your hand?

Pictures hanging
In a hallway And the
Fragment of a song

Half-remembered names
And faces But to
Whom do they belong?

When you knew that
It was over
You were suddenly aware
That the autumn
Leaves were turning
To the colour of his 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