Noel Harrison sang the original version of this song which was composed with music by Michel Legrand for the 1968 film "Thomas Crown Affair", and won the Academy Award for Best Song in the same year. Michel adapted Mozart's "Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra" for the opening melodic sequence. Many other artists have sung this song including Dusty Springfield, Sting... and Iranian artist Farhad Mehrad (this live version).
Farhad Mehrad (January 20, 1944 -- August 31, 2002) was an award winning Persian legendary Rock singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist and icon. He rose to prominence among Iranian Rock and Folk musicians before the Iranian Revolution, but after the revolution he was banned from singing until his death.
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Round like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending on 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
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 shone
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 on 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 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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