Up Where We Belong Up Where We Belong "Up Where We Belong" is a song written by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Will Jennings that was recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the 1982 film "An Officer and a Gentleman". Warnes was recommended to sing a song from the film because of her previous soundtrack successes, and she had the idea for the song to be a duet that she would perform with Cocker. Jennings selected various sections of the score by Nitsche and Sainte-Marie in creating the structure of the song and added lyrics about the struggles of life and love
We All Go Back to Where We Belong of "Time" also considers it a fitting final single, comparing it with the wistfulness of "Man on the Moon" and "The Boston Herald"s Jed Gottlieb has compared it favorably to R.E.M. ballads "Nightswimming" and "Perfect Circle". We All Go Back to Where We Belong "We All Go Back to Where We Belong" is the final single from American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 2011. The song is the lead single from the band's final album, the career-spanning greatest hits compilation "Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011". The song was made available over the Internet on October