Time in a Bottle／New York's Not My Home

Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim  (1972)

Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
Written by Jim Croce

If I could save time in a bottle 
The first thing that I 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 seem to be enough time
to do the things you want to do
Once you've found them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go through the 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

瓶中時光

如果我可以把時光保存在瓶子裡
我想做的第一件事
就是保存每一天，直到永恆消逝
然後與你一同分享

如果我可以使時光停駐
如果言語可以使夢想成真
我會把每天像寶藏一樣保存下來
然後，再次與你分享

但是，時間似乎永遠不夠
讓你去做你想做的事
一旦你已察覺
四處尋覓，我已明瞭
你就是我想要一起共度時光的人

如果我有一個盒子
收集了未曾實現的願望和夢想
盒子裡面可能是空的
除了你有回答過的回憶以外
Jim Croce - New York's Not My Home
Written by Jim Croce

Well, things were spinning round me 
And all my thoughts were cloudy
And I had begun to doubt all the things that were me

Been in so many places
You know I've run so many races
And looked into the empty faces of the people of the night
And something is just not right

Cause I know that I gotta get out of here
I'm so alone
Don't you know that I gotta get out of here
Cause, New York's not my home

Though all the streets are crowded
There's something strange about it
I lived there about a year and I never once felt at home

I thought I'd make the big time
I learned a lot of lessons awful quick
And now I'm telling you
That they were not the nice kind

And it's been so long since I have felt fine

That's the reason that I gotta get out of here
I'm so alone
Don't you know that I gotta get out of here
Cause New York's not my home

That's the reason that I gotta get out of here
I'm so alone
Don't you know that I gotta get out of here
Cause New York's not my home

紐約不是我的家

往事在我身邊流轉
所有的思緒彷彿一片陰霾
不禁讓我對自己的過去產生懷疑

走遍各地
你知道的，我征戰四方
夜裡，望著人們空洞的臉龐
有些事就是不對勁

因為我明白我應該離開這裡
我是如此孤單
難道你不明白我早該離開這裡
因為，紐約不是我的家

雖然街道也是擁擠不堪
但總覺得有些陌生
我住在那兒一年了，
從來沒有回家的感覺

我曾以為可以闖出一片天
我以驚人的速度學會許多事情
現在，我可以告訴你
那些都不是什麼好事

已經很久了，我不再感到順心如意

那正是我想離開這裡的原因
我是如此孤單

難道你不明白我早該離開這裡
因為，紐約不是我的家

那正是我想離開這裡的原因
我是如此孤單
難道你不明白我早該離開這裡
因為，紐約不是我的家