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.