I Am A Rock
Simon and Garfunkel
A winter's day in a deep and dark December
I am alone gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock, I am an island.
I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship.
Friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock, I am an island.
Don't talk of love.
Well, I've heard the word before.
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber
Of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock, I am an island.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
I am shielded in my armour,
Hiding in my room,
Safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock, I am an island.
...and a rock feels no pain.
...and an island never cries.