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This Jim Croce classic from 1975 comes back to haunt me occasionally, sometimes staying for a few minutes, sometimes for days on end. Even after all these years it still ranks high on my best lyrics/best sentiment list.

Time In A Bottle

Words and Music by Jim Croce
Copyright © 1975 Jim Croce, Atlantic Records.

If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I’d like to do
Is to save every day
Till Eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I’d save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re the one I want to go
Through time with

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re the one I want to go
Through time with

R.I.P Jim Croce. You too Bad Bad Leroy Brown.