Recommendation if you want an easier chord progression with more of the high pitches notes:
- Play with capo on 7th, and transpose up to Am in order to keep the correct Em key.
Chord progressions for this song I find are easier when played high up on the fretboard, but YMMV.
Intro
[Em] [Am6] [B7]
Alternatively:
E|--15--13--12----------------------------------
B|------------------------------13--12----------
G|--------------16--12------------------12--11--
D|----------------------16--14------------------
A|----------------------------------------------
E|----------------------------------------------
Verse 1
[Em] [Am6]
Round, like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
[B7] [B] [Em]
Never ending or beginning, on an ever spinnin' reel
[E7] [Am]
Like a snowball down a mountain or a carnaval balloon
[D7] [Gmaj7]
Like a carousel that's turning, running rings around the moon
[Gmaj7] [G] [Am9] [Am]
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
[B7] [A#dim]
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
[B7] [Em9] [Em] [Em7]
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind
Verse 2
[Em7] [Am6]
Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own
[B] [Em7]
Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone
[E7] [Am]
Like a door that keeps revolving in a half forgotten dream
[D7] [Gmaj7]
Or the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream
[Cmaj7] [Am6]
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
[B7] [A#dim]
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
[B7] [Em7]
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind
Verse 3
[Em] [Am7]
Keys that jingle in your pocket, words that jangle in your head
[D7] [Gmaj7]
Why did summer go so quickly, was it something that you said?
[G7] [Cmaj7]
Lovers walk along the shore and leave their footprints in the sand
[F#7] [Bm]
Is the sound of distant drumming just the fingers of your hand?
[Bm7] [E7] [Am]
Pictures hanging in a hallway and the fragment of a song
[D7] [Gmaj7]
Half remembered names and faces, but to whom do they belong?
[Cmaj7] [F#m]
When you knew that it was over you were suddenly aware
[B7] [Cm7]
That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of her hair
Outro
[Em7] [Am6]
Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
[B7] [A#dim]
Never ending or beginning, on an ever spinning wheel
[Em7/B] [B7]
As the images unwind, like the circles that you find
[Em7]
In the windmills of your mind
