I am a rock - Paul Simon

I am a rock- Paul Simon

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.

Paul Simon Newark 

New Jersey, 13 oktober 1941

 Amerikaans singer-songwriter.

Van 1964 tot 1970 vormde hij de helft van het duo Simon & Garfunkel en sinds 1970 is hij soloartiest, naast incidentele reünies met Art Garfunkel. Simon scoorde diverse hits, waaronder "Late in the Evening" en "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover". Simon maakte tot en met 2018 veertien soloalbums, het bekendste daarvan is het met Zuid-Afrikaanse musici gemaakte Graceland uit 1986, waarop ook de hitsingle "You Can Call Me Al" te vinden is.