The Perfect Love Song?

So last Christmas my wife gave me an in-dash CD player for my old Ford. Since then, I've been slowly re-listening to our entire collection of Compact Discs. This past week I had Jim Croce's Greatest Hits on.

I have to say, I think "Time in a Bottle" may just be the perfect love song. The lyrics capture that exquisite feeling of never wanting to be apart and that sense that you, my love, are the one I want to be with as the minutes pass, the hours expire, the days run away, and the weeks and months and years slip by.

You. Only you.

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
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

See? The perfect love song.

"Time in a Bottle" words and lyrics by Jim Croce; © 1972 by Saja Music