eagleye13 wrote:
You are right, The Graduate. The whole sound track is Simon and Garfunkel (love their music).
AND; I had a crush on Katherine Ross after that movie. Sam Elliot is one lucky guy.
Simon & Garfunkel remain my favorite recording artist duos of all-time. Although 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' may have been their best song, 'I Am A Rock' served me well when I was a young man on my own with (seemingly) both my mother and father out of my life. It became, both literally and figuratively, my song.
"I Am A Rock," by Paul Simon
A winters 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.