The Windmills of your Mind

The Windmills of your Mind 是1968年的電影 "The Thomas Crown Affair" 的主題曲。翻唱的人很多，但沒一人能比原唱的Noel Harrison唱得好。事實上，他只是簡樸地，踏實地就這樣把歌演繹出來，已經是最好。當然不是想像般容易，然而，甘於收儉的歌手根本亦難尋。

本來這是一首我遺忘已久的歌。最近偶然再遇上，反覆聽了又聽, 越發喜愛。
就一百數十秒的出生入死, 就是情緒有多少起伏，回憶有多少輪迴, 到最後安然靜默, 也是夢一場。

人成熟了, 經歷不一樣了, 從年少時不甚喜愛﹝其實是不懂它的可愛﹞，到現在細味它的旋律歌詞，聽得津津有味的一首歌曲, 我看見自己的轉變。
何時你也找一首淡忘了的歌來聽聽, 可能也聽到不一樣的領悟。





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