Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, (born January 8, 1937), is a Welsh singer, pe… Read Full Bio ↴Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, (born January 8, 1937), is a Welsh singer, perhaps best-known for performing the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song.

She now resides in Monaco and has recently sold her London apartment. Many of its furnishings were auctioned for charity. Two very popular 'Audiences With Shirley Bassey' have aired on British TV, the most recent being in March 2006.

In 2006, UK retailer Marks and Spencer hired Bassey for their Christmas advertising campaign, with Dame Shirley singing a cover of P!nk's 'Get the Party Started'.

In late 2009 Bassey released 'The Performance' her first studio album for two decades, which was released in a maelstrom of anticipation. Still popular well into one of the longest and most illustrious musical careers in British and indeed international history, Bassey is considered by Brits to be a national treasure.

I'm nothing without you
Shirley Bassey Lyrics

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Maybe in a year
I'll be a thousand miles from here
Maybe then I'll be someone
For maybe I will find
A magic in this poem's rhyme
Turning me into someone

But time may come and time may go

But time has only come to show
This thing I've just begun to know
Without you I'm nothing

And when people say I'm on my way
I've found my place, I'm here to stay
Then more and more, I know each day
Without you I'm nothing

I'm nothing without you
I'm nothing without you
I'm nothing at all without you

Line by Line Meaning

Maybe in a year
Possibly, in the span of a year

I'll be a thousand miles from here
I might be far away, a distant location

Maybe then I'll be someone
At that point, I could become significant

For maybe I will find
Because perhaps I'll discover

A magic in this poem's rhyme
An enchantment within the verses of this poem

Turning me into someone
Transforming me into a noteworthy person

But time may come and time may go
However, time can both arrive and depart

But time has only come to show
Yet time has solely come to reveal

This thing I've just begun to know
This matter I've recently started to comprehend

Without you I'm nothing
If you're absent, I lack any significance