"I Am A Rock" lyrics - PAUL SIMON
A winters 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
But I've heard the words 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 armor
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
The Paul Simon Songbook (1965)
- I Am A Rock
- Leaves That Are Green
- A Church Is Burning
- April Come She Will
- The Sound Of Silence
- A Most Peculiar Man
- He Was My Brother
- Kathy's Song
- The Side Of A Hill
- A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Lyndon Johnson'd Into Submission)
- Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
- Patterns
- I Am A Rock (Alternate Version)
- A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version)