Tom: G

               G          C            G        D       C - G
1. A winter's day, in a deep and dark December,   I am alone.
     Am              D      Am                D
    Gazing from my window to the streets below,
           Am             C                 D
    on a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
            G    Em        D - G    - Em
    I am a rock, I am an island.
                G       C                 G            D        C    G
2. I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty, that none may penetrate.
       Am                 D          Am               D
    I have no need for friendship, friendship causes pain,
          Am                 C           D
    it's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
            G    Em      D - G   - Em
    I am a rock, I am an island.
                  G                C                G
3. Don't talk of love, well, I've heard the word before,
          D             C  G
   it's sleeping in my memory.
       Am                  D          Am                 D
    I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died,
            Am              C                 D
    if I'd never loved, I never would have cried.
            G    Em        D - G   - Em
    I am a rock, I am an island.
              G             C            G
4. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me.
           D             C G
    I am shielded in my armor.
     Am            D     Am              D
    Hiding in my room , safe within my womb,
        Am              C               D
    I touch no-one and no-one touches me.
            G    Em        D - G
    I am a rock, I am an island.
             C             G            C      D      G
    And the rock feels no pain, and an island never cries.