"The Search Is Over" is a 1985 power ballad[1] by the American rock band Survivor.

It was the band's third single and second top-ten hit from their 1984 album Vital Signs.

Former keyboardist/guitarist for the band and co-songwriter Jim Peterik told Songfacts: "It wasn't about my life as much as a friend of mine who had a girlfriend – really a play pal throughout their growing up years – and never thought it could be anything more than that.

4 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of July 13, 1985,[3] and finished at No.

The song also spent four weeks atop the Adult Contemporary chart, Survivor's only chart-topper on this tally.