Farhad Mehrad - The Windmills of Your Mind video free download

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