I Am A Rock
The Hollies
(P. Simon - A. Garfunkel)
from the album Beat Group (US) or Would You Believe (UK), May 1966
A winter's day in a deep and dark December.
I am alone.
Gazing from my window to the street below
on a freshly fallen , silent shroud of snow.
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.
Don't disturb the slumber
of feelings that have died.
If I never loved, I never would have cried.
chorus
I build 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
chorus
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.
chorus
And a rock feels no pain.
And an island never cries
chorus x 2
source: Bob Gansler
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