 Initially Lean had desired to use a well-known Russian song but could not locate the rights to it, and delegated responsibility to Jarre.After several unsuccessful attempts at writing it, Lean suggested to Jarre that he go to the mountains with his girlfriend and write a piece of music for her.Jarre says that the resultant piece was "Lara's Theme", and Lean liked it well enough to use it in numerous tracks for the film.