I've been livin in a room without windows   Away from the sun, no oxygen   I couldn't tell if it was day or night   Away from the sun, growing nowhere fast   Rushing along on the pavement   Don't even look at the people's faces, going places      When an old man said stop   You nearly stepped on a flower   Growing through the cracks   And you didn't even notice      Chorus:   Wake up smell the roses   Life is happening and you don't know it   Wake up, take a moment   Grab it in your hands... and own it      I realise our love is like that flower   Been neglecting the thing most precious to me   You've been talking but I haven't been listening   The static in the noise been drowning you out   I so wanna be in the future   That I keep tripping   Over my own shoe laces   In these human races   And i'm brought back to now   And the volume goes down   There's peace in his words as loud as a shout sayin'      [Chorus]      He says      [Chorus]      Like your birthday I forgot   I was with you   But I was not... really there   Snap your fingers, that's your life   Not gonna let it pass my by no   When an old man said stop   You nearly stepped on a flower   Growing   Through the cracks   And you didn't even notice      [Chorus]