Jim Croce

Time in a Bottle



If I could save time in a bottle,
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save everyday 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 everyday 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 wanna do
Once you find them.
I've looked around enough to know that
You're the one I wanna go through time with

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that would 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 wanna do
Once you find them.
I've looked around enough to know
You're the one I wanna go through time with.
Photographs and Memories



Photographs and memories
Christmas cards you sent to me
All that I have are these to remember you
Memories that come at night
Take me to another time
Back to a happier day, when I called you mine

But we sure had a good time
When we started way back when
Morning walks and bedroom talks
Oh, how I loved you then

Summer skies and lullabies
Nights we couldn't say goodbye
And of all of the things that we knew
Not a dream survived

Photographs and memories
All the love you gave to me
Somehow it just can't be true
It's all I've left of you

But we sure had a good time
When we started way back when
Morning walks and bedroom talks
Oh, how I loved you then
 
It doesn't have to be that way


Snowy nights and Christmas lights,
Icy windowpanes,
Make me wish that we could be
Together again.
And the windy winter avenues
Just don't seem the same,
And the Christmas carols sound like blues,
But the choir is not to blame.

But it doesn't have to be that way.
What we had should never have ended.
I'll be dropping by today.
We could easily get it together tonight.
It's only right.

Crowded stores, the corner Santa Claus,
Tinseled afternoons,
And the sidewalk bands play their songs
Slightly out of tune.
Down the windy winter avenues
There walks a lonely man,
And if I told you who he is,
Well I think you'd understand.
But it doesn't have to be that way.
What we had should never have ended
.
I'll be dropping by today.
We could easily get it together tonight.
It's only right.

No, it doesn't have to be that way.
What we had should never have ended.
I'll be dropping by today.
We could easily get it together tonight.
It's only right.


I'll have to say I love you in a song