Paul Simon - The Paul Simon Songbook

I Am a Rock (Alternate Version)

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



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Writer(s): Paul Simon
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Other Album Tracks

  1. I Am a Rock
  2. Leaves That Are Green
  3. A Church Is Burning
  4. April Come She Will
  5. The Sound of Silence
  6. A Most Peculiar Man
  7. He Was My Brother
  8. Kathy's Song
  9. The Side of a Hill
  10. A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)

All Album Tracks: The Paul Simon Songbook >

Altri album

  1. Bad Dream - Single
  2. Seven Psalms
  3. The One Trick Showman
  4. Live 'N' Late In The Evening 1980
  5. In the Blue Light
  6. René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War
  7. Can't Run But
  8. One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor
  9. Graceland - The Remixes
  10. Graceland (MK & KC Lights Remix)

All Albums of Paul Simon >

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