"Я - скала". Первоначально Пол Саймон выпустил песню в своем сольном альбоме The Paul Simon Song Book, вышедшем в мае 1965 года в Соединенном Королевстве, где он жил после неудачной дебютной деятельности дуэта в Америке. Позже они переписали ее вместе с Гарфанкелом и включили в альбом Sounds of Silence (январь 1966), а весной 1966 выпустили синглом, который достиг №3 в Billboard Hot 100 charts.

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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 for 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
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'd 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 the rock feels no pain
And an island never cries