That's it! I can't take it any more!
The lyrics to "I Am A Rock"
Words by Paul Simon
Music by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkle
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.
Clearly these are words of sheilding ones self from the possibilty of
pain from the outside world. Seems to me like a life not worth living.
JHC
--JAMES_H_CARRINGTON@HP-Chelmsford-om1.om.hp.com
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