Time in a Bottle Phonetics
Excellent for practicing the secondconditional
listen & repeat phonetics

/s/ endings  /s/ => /z/ & /Iz/
is
dreams
days
words
wishes
passes

/ir/
first

/th/ (+voice)
the
that
them
then
they
there

/th/ (-voice)
thing
things
through
with

/I/
is
if
wishes
with

contraction and /wu/
I’d
would

Two syllables (not three)
answered

 

Time in a Bottle Lyrics
Jim Croce

listen & repeat lyrics ( slow )
listen & repeat lyrics (rapid)

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.

 

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.

--Chorus--

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 had never come true,

the box would be empty, except for the memory

of how they were answered by you.

--Chorus--

 

Vocabulary & Expressions
eternity passes
forever
wishes come true
except
treasure