Hold back the time

Just let it hang

Stop the seconds minutes and hours

And if I give you love

Will you let me keep myself



I'm sitting out here on the very edge of earth

Looking through a book from long before the world began

The man who gave it to me didn't have a name

As overhead the sun is running down the day



The book begins its story

It tells of war and hate it tells of power

The promises of freedom

And of all religions love and ways of life



And how to close your time inside a flower

Stop the seconds minutes hours

Close your time inside a flower

Live your life forget the power



The people passing by they stop to look at me

They all think I'm crazy cause I'm laughing in the wind

But I am free to be whatever I may choose

To win this freedom I know that somebody had to lose



I've learned of those who buy love

Read about those willing to sell it

When we're born it's for love

Some of us would die just to get it



What you gotta do is close your time inside a flower

Stop the seconds minutes hours

Close your time inside a flower

Live your life forget the power



We can give our love away and never lose ourselves

But no one can be something that you own

And if you think you've got the right to tell me what I am

I got no trouble leaving you alone



Close your time inside a flower

Stop the seconds minutes hours

Close your time inside a flower

Live your life forget the power