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
  so overhead the sun is running down the day.
  
  The books begins it's story,
  it tells of war and hate and 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 and they stop to look at me
  they all think I'm crazy 'cause I'm laughting in the wind
  but I'm 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