Time In a Bottle by Jim Croce
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 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...
Jim Croce是个传奇性的人物,在他短短三十年的生命中,从玩具店的店员、卡车司机、电台DJ、广告业务员、工人到临时教师,几乎什么样的工作都尝试过。他来自费城,学生时代就对音乐有着一份执着的狂热,曾经组过好几支民歌与蓝调的乐队。大学毕业后,为了生活,他到处打零工,还因为不小心被铁锤伤到手指,自己摸索出一套可以不用到那受伤的指头的吉他弹奏技巧。当然,在打工之余,他也不断的磨练自己的音乐创作能力。
1973年的夏天,两位戏剧界的人士筹拍一部电视影片,描述一名罹患癌症的年轻妇女跟死神搏斗的故事,由于经费有限,无法特别请人替影片谱写插曲,于是希望从现成的歌曲里面找一首刚好适合的作品。他们到唱片行买了一堆专辑,仔细的聆听,结果发现Time In a Bottle这首歌曲正好跟影片的精神完全符合,所以就跟Jim Croce的经纪人连络,希望获得使用的许可。
1973年9月12日,Jim Croce推出了他的第三张专辑《I Got AName》,而就在同一天晚上,那部电视影片在ABC电视网播出,ABC各地分台的电话响个没完没了,无数的观众都在询问哪里可以买到Time In a Bottle这首歌曲。唱片公司正忙着替Jim Croce的新专辑安排打歌的计划,根本没有时间理会观众的要求。
8天之后,也就是9月20日,Jim Croce为了赶到另一所大学去开宣传的校园演唱会,搭上了一架包机,飞机一起飞就出状况,撞上了一棵大树,机上所有的人员全部罹难,Jim Croce只活了30岁。
在Jim Croce过世之后,唱片公司发行了I Got AName这首歌的单曲,同时被电影《最后美国英雄》采用为插曲。当那首歌曲打进排行第十名的时候,Time In aBottle终于也被发行成单曲了。六个礼拜之后,它登上了榜首,成为摇滚年代第三首在艺人过世之后才登上冠军宝座的歌曲,可惜的是 Jim Croce本人却再也享受不到成功的滋味了。或许我们只能说,这都是命中注定的吧
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWoHjrdfFgU