I Am A Rock Lyrics

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,
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.

Paul Simon - The Paul Simon Songbook

Apr 2008

1. I Am A Rock
2. A Church Is Burning
3. April Come She Will
4. A Most Peculiar Man
5. He Was My Brother
6. The Side Of A Hill
7. A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
8. Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
9. Patterns
10. Leaves That Are Green
11. The Sound Of Silence
12. Kathy's Song
13. I Am A Rock (alternate version)
14. A Church Is Burning (alternate version)