Thursday 25 June 2009

Adynata in 70s music

Jim Croce's Time in a Bottle was covered by Glenn Campbell and, apparently, the muppets and features several instances of the trope of the adynaton: an impossibility (used to quantify the extent or the exceptional nature of something).

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.

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 youre the one I want to go
Through time with.

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