The song "The Windmills of Your Mind" by Dusty Springfield! I adore it,but...?

Question

it's a bit hard for me to comprehend.can you explain it a little bit.

Answer 1

The Windmills of Your Mind is a song with words & music by Alan, Marilyn Bergman, & Michel Legrand and performed by Noel Harrison for the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1968, as performed by the late singer Dusty Springfield, whose version of the song is most well known, despite being remade by singers such as Sting, whose version was used in the 1999 remake of the same film. Dusty Springfield's version appears on the soundtrack to Breakfast on Pluto (2006)

The song illustrates a person's mental state after a romantic break-up, relating the way emotionally charged thoughts and memories can run in tortured circles. With its succession of similes ("Like a circle in a spiral/Like a wheel within a wheel"), hypnotic rythms and complex imagery, it is a song that can "stick in your head." The lyrics even refer to this phenomenon: in among a collection of disjointed memories is "a fragment of a song," in the 1968 recording, and "a fragment of this song," in the 1999 recording.