from the songs album Would You Believe?
(simon / garfunkel)
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 might
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
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