The song I Am A Rock is performed by Paul Simon in the album named The Paul Simon Songbook in the year 2008 .
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
- I Am A Rock
- A Church Is Burning
- April Come She Will
- A Most Peculiar Man
- He Was My Brother
- The Side Of A Hill
- A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
- Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
- Patterns
- Leaves That Are Green
- The Sound Of Silence
- Kathy's Song
- I Am A Rock (alternate version)
- A Church Is Burning (alternate version)