Time in a Bottle

Time in a Bottle is a song by the American singer -songwriter Jim Croce. Accompanied only by guitar song was first released in 1972, on the album You Do not Mess Around with Jim, the first album by Jim Croce. The song was only released in 1973, one month after Croce's death as a single. Another two months later, in December 1973, it reached # 1 in the U.S. charts. There are many cover versions of the piece, including Chris de Burgh on 2011 to published album Footsteps 2

Text

Time in a Bottle can be interpreted as a love song to Croce's wife Ingrid, Jim Croce wrote it but for his son Adrian. The first stanza reads as follows:

" If I could save time in a bottle The first thing did I'd like to do Is to save every day till eternity passes away Just to spend them with you "

To German as:

"If I could collect time in a bottle Would be the first thing I would do To gather every day, for all eternity In order to spend them with you "

The subject is then varied in the following verses, in the last stanza with the idea of ​​what would happen if you could collect wishes and unfulfilled dreams in a box. The chorus is the fact that there is never enough time to do the things you 'd like to do. Not even when you know with whom you want to spend time.

Music

The just over two minute long piece starts with a guitar intro that corresponds to the harmonic progression of the first part of the verse. Here are two verses, the chorus, another verse, the chorus again, and finally a short outro. Between the first chorus and the verse following the intro is repeated again as interlude.

The basic tone of the verses in the original recording is in D minor, of the chorus in D major. The song is accompanied on the original recording by multiple guitars, the piece is still good for a guitar arrangierbar.