Time in a bottle

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Time in a Bottle is a song by the American singer and songwriter Jim Croce . The guitar- only song was first released in 1972 on You Don't Mess Around with Jim , Jim Croce's first album. The song was released as a single in 1973, only a month after Croce's death . Another two months later, in December 1973, it reached number 1 on the US charts .

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

"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"

In German, for example:

"If I could collect time in a bottle,
the first thing I would do would be
to collect every day, forever
and ever To spend with you"

The theme is then varied in the following stanzas, in the last stanza with the idea of ​​what if one could collect wishes and unfulfilled dreams in a box. The chorus is about the fact that there is never enough time to do the things you want to do. Not even if you know who you want to spend your time with.

music

Something lasting over two minutes play is written in a 3/4-time and starts with a guitar - Intro , which by the harmony sequence corresponds to the first part of the verse. This is followed by two stanzas, the refrain , another stanza, again the chorus and finally a short extro . Between the first chorus and the following stanza, the intro is repeated again as an interlude.

The basic key of the stanzas in the original recording is D minor , that of the refrain is D major . The singing is accompanied by several guitars on the original recording, but the piece can be easily arranged for a guitar .

reception

There are numerous cover versions of the piece, including on Chris de Burgh's 2011 album Footsteps 2 .

In the movie X-Men: Future is Past (2014), the song is played from the off during Magneto's breakout from the Pentagon in 1973, when the mutant Quicksilver overpowers the guards in super slow motion .

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