Hollies - I Am a Rock LYRICS

The Hollies
I Am a Rock
(Paul Simon/Art Garfunkel)
Track 6 on album 'Would You Believe' June 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.

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
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.
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.
I am a rock. I am an island.
I am a rock. I am an island.