I Am A Rock

Simon & Garfunkel

               G        C               G
1. A winter's day in a deep and dark December,
   Ami D    C G
   I   am alone
    Ami            Hmi    Ami              Hmi
   Gazing from my window to the street bellow
          Ami           C                 D
   On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
   C       G    C       D  G
   I am a rock, I am an island.

2. I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty
   That none may penetrate.
   I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain,
   Its loughter and its loving I disdain,
   I am a rock, I am an island.

3. Don't talk of love, but I've heard the words before,
   It's sleeping in my memories
   I won't disturb the slumber of feeling 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'm 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.
              Ami  D        G
DOHRA: And a rock feels no pain
              Ami     D      G
       And an island never cries.