Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes – Up Where We Belong

This is the theme song to the movie “An Officer And A Gentleman”. It won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1983. Released on July 22, 1982.

Cocker and Warnes won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals on February 23, 1983. Two months later, on April 11, the songwriters won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. They also won the BAFTA film award for Best Original Song in 1984. On the Songs of the Century list compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2001 the song was listed at number 323. In 2004 it finished at number 75 on AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema, and in 2016 one of the duo’s live renditions of the song was listed at number 18 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 20 Greatest Best Song Oscar Performances.

Lyrics:
Who knows what tomorrow brings
In a world, few hearts survive
All I know is the way I feel
When it’s real, I keep it alive

The road is long, there are mountains in our way
But we climb a step every day

Love lift us up where we belong, where the eagles cry
On a mountain high
Love lift us up where we belong, far from the world below
We know, up where the clear winds blow

Some hang on to used to be
Live their lives, looking behind

All we have is here and now
All our life, out there to find

The road is long, there are mountains in our way,
But we climb them a step ev’ry day

Love lift us up where we belong, where the eagles cry
On a mountain high
Love lift us up where we belong, far from the world
We know, up where the clear winds blow

Time goes by, no time to cry, life’s you and I
Alive today

Love lift us up where we belong, where the eagles cry
On a mountain high
Love lift us up where we belong, far from the world
We know, where the clear winds blow

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