Les Moulins de Mon Cœur💔Windmills of Your Mind

Les Moulins de Mon Cœur
The Windmills of Your Mind

"The Windmills of Your Mind" is a song with music by French composer Michel Legrand and English lyrics written by Americans Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman. 

The French lyrics, under the title "Les Moulins de Mon Cœur", were written by Eddy Marnay.

The song (with the English lyrics) was used as the theme for the 1968 film, The Thomas Crown Affair.

The opening two melodic sentences were borrowed from Mozart's second movement from his Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, K. 364.

In the original 1968 film the song was performed by Noel Harrison who took the song to #8 in the UK Singles Chart. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1968.

A version by Sting was used in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair.

Dusty Springfield's version of the song from her album Dusty in Memphis is also well known; this version reached #31 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and #3 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart in 1969.  This recording also appeared on the soundtrack to Breakfast on Pluto (2006).

The song has been interpreted by a large number of singers, instrumentalists, and orchestras.

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Michel Legrand 
The Thomas Crown Affair(1968) 

• Dusty Springfield  1969 HD
• Barbra Streisand   2011
• Mireille Mathieu &  Michel Legrand - Duo
• Amaury Vassili  
• Michel Legrand
• Tina Arena -  (Live)
• Frida Boccara - 
• Nana Mouskouri - 
• Claude François   + Paroles
• Patricia Kaas 
• Barbra Streisand   2011
• Sting 
• Vicky Leandros
• Sharleen Spiteri  + Lyrics
• Noel Harrison
• The Windmills Of Your Mind
• Les Moulins de Mon Coeur 
• Dusty In Memphis

Noel Harrison

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Is there a definitive meaning to this song?

The most revealing line is:  "When you knew that it was over, you were suddenly aware that the autumn leaves were turning to the color of her hair"

Is it about the emotional turmoil caused by a relationship ending (abruptly?); endlessly re-winding to when you were so in love that everything else in life was a blur, and going round & round in circles over what went wrong and what you might have done differently?

Something we can all relate to.

One of the song's writers, Marilyn Bergman, said: "The lyric we wrote was stream-of-consciousness. "We felt that the song had to be a mind-trip of some kind.  "I think we were thinking… you know when you try to fall asleep at night and you can't turn your brain off and thoughts and memories tumble."

Life in the 60's was a constant whirl

Les Moulins de Mon Cœur

Les Moulins de Mon Coeur		The Windmills Of Your Mind
Michel Legrand - Musique		Michel Legrand - Music
Paroles: Eddy Marnay		Lyrics: Bergman, Marilyn / Bergman, Alan
Comme une pierre que l'on jette		Round,
Dans l'eau vive d'un ruisseau		Like a circle in a spiral
Et qui laisse derrière elle		Like a wheel within a wheel
Des milliers de ronds dans l'eau		Never ending or beginning
Comme un manège de lune		On an ever-spinning reel
Avec ses chevaux d'étoiles		Like a snowball down a mountain
		Or a carnival balloon
Comme un anneau de Saturne
Un ballon de carnaval		Like a carousel that’s turning
Comme le chemin de ronde		Running rings around the moon
Que font sans cesse les heures		Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Le voyage autour du monde		Past the minutes on it’s face
D'un tournesol dans sa fleur		And the world is like an apple
Tu fais tourner de ton nom		Whirling silently in space
Tous les moulins de mon cœur		Like the circles that you find
		In the windmills of your mind
Comme un écheveau de laine
Entre les mains d'un enfant		Like a tunnel that you follow
Ou les mots d'une rengaine		To a tunnel of it’s own
Pris dans les harpes du vent		Down a hollow to a cavern
Comme un tourbillon de neige		Where the sun has never shone
Comme un vol de goélands		Like a door that keeps revolving
Sur des forêts de Norvège		In a half-forgotten dream
Sur des moutons d'océan		Like the ripples from a pebble
		Someone tosses in a stream
Comme le chemin de ronde
Que font sans cesse les heures		Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Le voyage autour du monde		Past the minutes on it’s face
D'un tournesol dans sa fleur		And the world is like an apple
Tu fais tourner de ton nom		Whirling silently in space
Tous les moulins de mon cœur		Like the circles that you find
		In the windmills of your mind
Ce jour-là près de la source
Dieu sait ce que tu m'as dit		Keys that jingle in your pocket
Mais l'été finit sa course		Words that jangle in your head
L'oiseau tomba de son nid		Why did summer go so quickly?
Et voila que sur le sable		Was it something that I said?
Nos pas s'effacent déjà		Lovers walk along a shore
Et je suis seul à la table		And leave their footprints in the sand
Qui résonne sous mes doigts
		Was the sound of distant drumming
Comme un tambourin qui pleure		Just the fingers of your hand?
Sous les gouttes de la pluie		Pictures hanging in a hallway
Comme les chansons qui meurent		Or the fragment of a song
Aussitôt qu'on les oublie		Half-remembered names and faces
Et les feuilles de l'automne		But to whom do they belong?
Rencontre des ciels moins bleus		When you knew that it was over
Et ton absence leur donne		Were you suddenly aware
La couleur de tes cheveux		That the autumn leaves were turning
		To the colour of her hair?
Une pierre que l'on jette
Dans l'eau vive d'un ruisseau		Like a circle in a spiral
Et qui laisse derrière elle		Like a wheel within a wheel
Des milliers de ronds dans l'eau		Never ending or beginning
Au vent des quatre saisons		On an ever-spinning reel
Tu fais tourner de ton nom		As the images unwind
Tous les moulins de mon cœur		Like the circles that you find
		In the windmills of your mind