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

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'

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

He says

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

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

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