We Belong

Pat Benatar struck gold yet again in the early 1980s. Here, the song is about a woman who is stuck in a relationship which appears to be failing, yet the lovers are still too attached to let go.

This was written by Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro. They later recorded as the duo Lowen & Navarro. Navarro recalled the story of the song during a talk with Bart Herbison, Executive Director of Nashville Songwriters Association International (Source The Tennessean). "I was kind of lamenting an old relationship, and I kind of wanted to get the point across: 'It doesn't matter if you agree, or disagree, if you're here or gone. There are things that are bigger than both of us, and we belong together,'" he recalled. "I started with that final line and built everything almost backwards. Then I thought, 'Wouldn't it be fun for us to belong to all of this stuff: the light, the thunder ...' So it came from there." "I had written this rambling verse. (Eric) goes, 'I don't like the verse. I like this bit, Dan,'" Navarro added. "He sits down in a corner, writes a first verse, and the first verse was there, whole. And I knew the rest of the song from that point on. I took about ten minutes to write the rest of the lyric. I had set up the destination. He had set up the basis to the story. And I've always believed that next to the chorus - and sometimes even more than the chorus - the first two lines of the song are the most important in the whole song. You've got to hear enough to draw you in, but not so much that you don't want to hear the rest of the song."

This was used in the movies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2005), Blue Valentine (2010), and Pitch Perfect 2 (2015). It enjoyed a surge in popularity in 2018 after it was used in the raunchy superhero movie Deadpool 2. It also shows up on several TV shows, including an episode of The Office ("A Benihana Christmas" - 2006), with Mindy Kaling singing it to BJ Novak. Other uses include: Mixed-ish ("Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" - 2020) Stumptown ("The Other Woman" - 2019) Santa Clarita Diet ("The Cult Of Sheila" - 2019) The Magicians ("The Serpent" - 2019) This Is Us ("Songbird Road: Part Two" - 2019) Dynasty ("Dead Scratch" - 2018) Halt and Catch Fire ("A Connection Is Made" - 2017) Gossip Girl ("G.G." - 2012) One Tree Hill ("Weeks Go By Like Days" - 2010) Nip/Tuck ("Dan Daly" - 2010) Hill Street Blues ("You're In Alice's" - 1985)