The World Is a Circle (lyrics Burt Bacharach and Hal David) “The world is a circle without a beginning,and nobody knows where it really ends…” Those words have lived inside me for more than fifty years. The song was written in 1973 by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the film  Lost Horizon . I was ten years old then too young to remember the movie, too young perhaps to grasp its metaphysics but not too young to remember the song. I remember every lyric. I remember the melody