The Windmills of Your Mind § Navigating the Labyrinth

The Windmills of Your Mind

Part of a quartet, including:
:Where is Happiness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BCkhr_-ec4
:Season of the Witch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Get4ZZANJ4c
:Some Velvet Morning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw1sY0MaPfQ


Lyrics: Bergman & Bergman
Tune:Legrand


Also, try a listen to http://vimeo.com/11125275
ELP's instrumental of "When the Apple Blossoms Bloom in the Windmills of Your Mind I'll Be Your Valentine"

Lyrics:

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
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind!
Like a tunnel you can 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 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?
And leave their footprints in the sand
Was the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
And a fragment of this 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!**

** lyrics omitted by the Vanilla Fudge version, but in the original work.


Imagery - Transdimensional flight, dancing on the event horizon, reflecting in spheres ripples

"HP Lovecraft" "the seeds" The Magic Mushrooms

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[lovethatswivo]

@jtatlarge Yes I mean VF's version. I never concerned myself with differences (changes, "errors"). I may have been dimly aware of the song and Michel LeGrand but this is it as far as I'm concerned. The "correct" structure of the song without the space at the end of each line sounds "wrong" to me. Mark is really pushing the limits of his voice here and he's a little flat in couple spots, most notably 4:49. And what is that feedback at 5:24? I wouldn't have expected that in the studio.

[jtatlarge]

@lovethatswivo I don`think he`s flat unintentionally in this one. He was great at the angst-ridden vocal. At 4:49 its just the flatside of the slow vibrato (listen to Of Her Hair etc 6:20-6:45), as he slides upwards to the note. Also Just the Fingers of Your Hand 5:09-5:22. I love these four tunes. In some sense, they had it all over LedZepp (metal gods may now rain on me). Plant vs three guys with coherent harmonic voices, almost Wilsonesque. VF wins.

[lovethatswivo]

hi jtatlarge.  Isn't this Mark singing? Hearing other versions of this song was always a big letdown for me. I love love love it.

[jtatlarge]

@lovethatswivo I'm not 100% sure, but I think so. However, apparently most of the lyrical changes in Windmills were Carmine's - I heard this from a Shadow Morton interview third-hand, so perhaps its not 100% solid. When I said version I meant VF version, not the singer per se.

[activenight]

It's actually:

Pictures hanging in a hallway

And a fragment of this song

Half remembered names and faces

NOT

half forgotten!!!

[jtatlarge]

@activenight Congratulations. You are the first to notice. I actually left several common errors and some of Carmine's "changes" (you noted 2). Whirling. Carmine's version changes some lyrics for dramatic effect. "You were suddenly aware" rather than "Were you suddenly aware", and "jingle" twice vs jingle / jangle. Plus a few others. I particularly liked Carmine's "Where's that jingle in your head". Given the meter, I think it fits.

[jessdepaula]

@dibblesdva

Yes..like the lyrics to that song ...Never ending our Beginning..on an ever spinning wheel...I still would give it ***** Great Vocal expression extraordinary interpretation

by Vanilla Fudge

[ATaleOfTwoCitiesAug]

♥ Incredible!!! Masterpiece!!! ♥ ♫ ♫ ♫

[animascat]

cut my teeth on psychedelia with vanilla fudge, iron butterfly, electric music for the mind and body by cj and the fish.still love those artists today. wow!

[lovethatswivo]

I was watching a program discussing the concept of the multiverse where things could be very much like the reality we know with some differences. I hope there's one where VF became as big as LZ. After all, LZ was their warm up act back when. On a side note, one of my first impressions of Queen was "Led Zeppelin with vocals". It was just a couple days ago plus twenty years that Freddie left us. I'd be interested to know what other artists you consider crucial. Bet we have more in common.

[lovethatswivo]

@jtatlarge Continuing previous comment, I'm not criticizing. I couldn't imagine doing another take of THAT vocal! If they were burned out (this being their last album before breaking up) they might have said hell with it good enough but good enough from VF surpasses many other artists' finest moments. Shredding is great, but I like emotion in my music. Great video BTW.

[licek360]

THANK YOU