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. Its laughter  
and its loving I disdain. I am a rock, I am an    
island.                                           
                                                  
Don't talk of love, well 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.