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9. We Have All The Time In The World
From: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1967)
Performed by: Louis Armstrong

Without doubt, the most plaintive Bond theme of them all. OK, so it's not really a Bond theme - the honour for that on OHMSS goes to, well, OHMSS, while We Have All The Time In The World plays around the halfway mark, as Bond and his true love, Diana Rigg's Tracy, begin to fall in love. It, of course, takes on extra, especially sad meaning at the end: as Bond cradles a dying Tracy in his arms, he rocks back and forth in denial, telling a concerned passer-by that, "We have all the time in the world". The song itself, written by John Barry for the gravel-voiced Armstrong, is a classy, melodic, understated affair, underpinned by a playful string motif, arpeggiated guitar and a wistful brass line that seems to foreshadow the doom the two lovers face.

Best lyrics: "Every step of the way / Will find us / With the cares of the world / Far behind us"

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