My Favorite Song (I Am a Rock, Simon & Garfunkel)

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This article is about the 1966 Simon & Garfunkel song.

I Am a Rock  , is included as the final track on their 1966 album Sounds of Silence. The song is written by Paul Simon and preformed with Art Garfunke .

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Lyrics

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 pains It's laughter and it's loving I disdain 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 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.

Live (it's the same)

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 pains It's laughter and it's loving I disdain 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 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.

Solo And Covers

It was covered in 1966 by The Hollies on their fourth album Would You Believe?.

It was covered in 1966 by The Grass Roots on their first album Where Were You When I Needed You.

It was covered in 1982 by The Church on their EP Singsongs.

It was covered in 1986 by The Coolies on their album dig..?, along with eight other tongue-in-cheek covers of Simon & Garfunkel classics.

It was covered in 1990 by The Hated on the Wedge 7" compilation, and released again on The Machines: Simple Machines 7"s (1990-1993) in 1994.

It was covered in 1993 by Red House Painters on their third album Red House Painters.

It was covered in 1997 by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on their album Have a Ball.

It was covered in 1997 by Arjen Lucassen on his solo album Strange Hobby..

It was covered in 2001 by April Wine on their album Back to the Mansion.

It was covered in 2016 by Tim Heidecker, with parodic lyrics, as "I Am a Cuck".[20]

It was sung with parody lyrics in Narf Over Troubled Water.