I am a rock
Simon and Garfunkel (Paul Simon)
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1. A winter's day in a deep and dark December.I am alone,
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gazing from my window to the streets below on a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
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I am a rock. I am an island.
2. I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty that noone 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.
3. Don't talk of love, but I've heard the word 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.
4. 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 noone and noone touches me.
I am a rock. I am an island.
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End. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.