Chords for I Am a Rock

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
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This, according to _ Artie, is my most neurotic song.
_ _ I [B] don't know whether that's true or not.
_ It's a _ song about loneliness.
[G] _ _ It's called I Am A Rock.
[B] _
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_ _ _ A winter's day, _ _ _ _ _ [E] in a deep and dark [B] December. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ I am [B] alone, _ _ _ _ [C#m] gazing [D#m] from my window [C#m] to the [D#] streets below.
[C#m] On a freshly fallen, [B] silent [F#] shroud of snow.
[B] I am a rock.
I am [F#] an _ _ [B] island. _ _ _
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I've built walls.
_ _ _ _ [E] _
They're fortresses, steep [B] and mighty. _ _
_ _ _ [F#] That none [E]
may [B] penetrate.
_ _ [C#] I have no [F#] need of friendship.
[C#] Friendship [D#m] causes pain.
[G#m] It's laughter and it's loving I [F#] disdain.
[B] I am a rock.
I [F#] am an _ _ _ [B] island. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
No talk of love. _ _ _
Well, [E] I've heard the [B] word before. _
_ _ _ [G#m] _ [C#m] It's [F#] sleeping [E] in [B] my memory.
_ _ [C#] I won't [D#m] disturb the [C#] slumber of feelings [D#m] that have died.
[C#] If I am never [G#m] loved, I never [F#] would have cried.
[B] I am a rock.
I am [F#] an [B] island. _ _ _
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I have my books _ _ _ and [E] my poetry [B] to protect me. _
_ _ _ [C#m] I am [Bm] shielded [E] in my [B] armor.
_ _ _ [G#m] Hiding [D#] in my [D#m] room, [G#m] safe within [D#m] my womb.
[C#] I [E] touch no one and no one [F#] touches me.
[E] [B] I am a rock.
I am [F#] an [B] island. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] And [B] the rock feels no pain.
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [D#m] _ _