I am a rock
- Simon & 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. I've heard the word before.
It's sleeping in my memory.
And 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, no one touches me.
I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock can feel no pain.
And an island never cries.