Jim Croce Time In a Bottle

Jim Croce Time In A Bottle Time in a Bottle is a hit single by singersongwriter Jim Croce. Croce wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid told him she was pregnant, in December 1970. It appeared on his 1972 ABC debut album You Don t Mess Around with Jim and was featured in the 1973 ABC madefortelevision movie She Lives . ABC originally did not intend to release the song as a single; but when Croce was killed in a plane crash in September 1973, its lyrics, dealing with mortality and the wish to have more time, had additional resonance. The song subsequently received a large amount of airplay as an album track and demand for a single release built. When it was eventually issued as a 7, it became his second and final No. 1 hit. Lyrics If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I d like to do Is to save every day Til eternity passes away Just to spend them with you If I could make days last forever If words could make