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  • A very unique voice. You can hear her father in her voice

  • R.I.P. Whitney. This was reportedly one of her favorite songs.

  • I have loved Lalah and this song was the reason...Great artist

  • As much as I appreciate Vesta's original, Lalah's version just does it for me. Especially the ending harmony, but I also like Vesta's closing scatting just as much in her version.

  • put this album on and just let it play the whole thing was so great!!!!!!!!! A MUST HAVE 4 SURE this is absolutely my favorite love me some LALAH

  • She is truely her father's daughter ; and then some.

  • RFSA88..... TRUE THAT

  • If you dislike or don't like this song something is wrong with you and you don't recognize good music!

  • i love both versions!!!

  • brings back so many fond memories

  • Love this song and I wore this cd (I had it on tape back in the day) out!! She is truly her father's daughter!! Love her.

  • back at a time when living in New York meant being exposed to all forms of music, I first heard this record. don't know how it is up there now, but it sure is refreshing to hear this gem again.

  • Lelah recently redid I'm Coming Back with Rachelle Ferrell,i heard it,sounds pretty good.

  • This is the "Smoking Whip!!!"  One of the greatest songs ever!!!

  • This is a song that I will never get tired of listening to. It's that enjoyable.

  • lalah you are a class act with style and grace never change

  • Love this song, played it so many times in college. Favorite one yet

  • Love love love this song!!

  • This song is beautiful however makes me sad because back in 1991 my high school crush and eventually boyfriend was shot and killed over a necklace some guys thought he took from one of them and I owned the cd this song was on so I forever played it after his funeral. It was as if he were telling me he was coming back to me.

  • someone used it on a video tribute to florence griffith joyner fastest woman athlete ever RIP . thats where i first heard this, i downloaded it after that.

  • Lalah should be so proud! Her voice is like the finest silk that has ever graced your skin. When you think you have felt the finest nature has to offer, she ups it one more time. God Bless you Lalah! May you have peace, health and a abundance of love!

  • *Smiling* Thanks, Sean Barnave, for introducing me to this song. One of my fondest memories at Spelman College in '92 was singing this song with Kai Martin, Noelle Laveaux, Jeanine Addison, and Heather Fatzinger. LOVE ya, ladies-Mwah! Thanks for nurturing my nostalgic side :-)

  • BEAUTIFUL!!!! (*_*)

  • love lalah!! What a gift!!

  • Sing, Lalah, Sing!!!!!!

  • VESTA would be Honored!!! Lalah did her justice..

  • if anyone knows hwho originally sings this song let me know.....

  • @TIPFAN4Lyfe Vesta Williams

  • WOW WEE!!!!!! That's what I say when I can't say nothing else!!!! WOW WEE!!!!!

  • Gosh, I realized I spelled her name incorrectly. Please excuse the typo. I am such a Lalah fan. Lalah's voice is like watching water falling over the most beautiful waterfall in the world. The water goes into a lake, pond, stream or ocean....regardless, it is recycled into the earth and made beauttiful. Lalah your voice......keeps streaming!

  • This song will live on long after she is gone. Why? The woman is talented like her father and the genes just spread on. We all are blessed to hear her voice, intermingled with her father's. Love endures, it manifest, and it blossoms. Here is love blossomming.....Laylah Hathaway! PEACE, LOVE and FLIGHT!

  • I just heard Vesta's version ........(and I remember when Lalah came ou twith this early 90's)..............and to me it's too fast....you don't comprehend the words like my girl Lalah.....Lalah puts it down...way down

  • "CLASSIC"

  • THIS SONG HAS 'JESUS' WRITTEN  ALL OVER IT

  • THIS SONG HAS 'JESUS' WRITTEN ALL OVER IT..REACH OUT AND CALL ME I'M GONNA BE BY YOUR SIDE DAY AND NIGHT THROUGH THE REST OF MY LIFE..............I'M COMING BACK.....AMEN

  • I MUST SAY THIS PARTICULAR SONG HAS 'JESUS' WRITTEN ALL OVER IT...NOW THERE'S ONLY ONE THING LEFT TO DO...AND THAT'S TO FIND MY WAY BACK TO YOU.......!!!!!!!

  • thinkin of u Big Travis

  • reminds me of my first real adult love, don't know if u r even still alive...but thinking of u....

  • She had a powerful voice. She sounds just like her father (Donnie Hathaway)!!!

  • her voice is perfect. i truly believe she can remake any song and take it to another level.

  • listen to "the word alive" way better than this

  • how old is lala here. i mean her voice on those low low notes are just soo heavy!

  • @hassan1814 22 years old

  • I get goosebumps listening to this <3

  • One of the ultimate jams!

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  • I remember laying in my bed listening to this so many times...Lalah's music is so relaxing and complete mind music......I love it so much!!...Keep singing Lalah...I love you!!

  • this song is bad ass!!!

  • @ RFSA88 Amen

  • I love this entire album.

  • I love this song! :-D

  • REAL R&B!

  • Man, this is a classic!!! She is truly gifted!

  • I absolutely LOVE this song!!! Real Music Ya'll!

  • I love this song!!!!!! One of my fav's of all time!

  • Pure!

  • Her voice is smooth like chocolate. Her father would be so proud of her if he was here

  • I'm coming back omg

  • Girl......U rocked this one.....makes me cry a river for my man

  • LALAH is GENETICALLY INCAPABLE of making bad music.

  • @RFSA88 lol amen....

  • @RFSA88 I am in total agreement with you on this. and what blows me she sounds even better now. her live shows are just breathtaking!

  • so thats the sound of love ooooooooooh....i love this song!!!! nothing that is played today can touch the richness of this song! beautifully done!

  • nice track

  • Her best song... brings back so many good memories... this would be the last song I'd listen to before going to bed. so soulful... the 70's, 80's, 90's were the best of music.

  • @sgrantla: Same here: This "I'm Coming Back" was one my favorite songs from Lalah Hathaway's first album. I used to listen to it before bedtime when I was in high school, my "Quiet Storm" music..  I thought she had the greatest voice--and, at the time, I didn't have any idea who Donny Hathaway was. I was right!

  • @iboudiop This was in heavy rotation during my local radio station's four hour Quiet Storm block. I would listen to this and other great music as I drifted off to sleep as a teenager. Those were good times. Where has soulful, romantic music gone?

  • @iboudiop this CD is still in my car to this day... I LOVE her!!!!!

  • when i hear this song i cry its so emotional music like this is so beautiful . man i wish music today was like this all my friends say im stupid cause i love old music idc its soo much better then todays so i can sit down all day in listen to it im a old soul and glad cause i have a ear for music. that other people mite not have . i love lalah hathaway music !!

  • just arrived in frst desert storm and this is what i said every day i played this song back then THANK YOU LORD.

  • i love this song i can't believe i'm listening to it again

  • Gary Taylor produced this song, I love his music. This womans voice is like melted butter and molasses.

  • She definitely has her father's genes!!! This is the song i fell in love with her...

  • Pure, Classic, there is only one voice like that, where is she at?

  • I remember i was 13 when this came out, listening to this at my sister's house thinking "i want love like that...." no lie.

  • @TWhiz01 You too? lol. I was 12 or so and I was thinking how wonderful loving as an adult was going to be. I was hoping that it would be like this. Now I'm 34 and I'm listening to this while mending a broken heart. Anyway it's still great music!

  • one of my personal pleasures. i remember listening to this at 13 and thinking "Man, i want that kind of love...." no lie.

  • classic material

  • Takes me waaaaaaaaaay back. Brings back great nostalgia. Thank you Lalah!

  • My sister used to blow this song when we were young. This song reminds me of my younger days...a much easier time

  • 4;07-4:34.... my God....she killed it at that break down....... i felt she meant wht she was sayning at that very part........

  • This is honestly my favorite song ever !!!!!!

  • I am totally a Lalah Hathaway fan. I absolutely love this song. 

  • Even before my next comment I love this song. I feel it's one of the best ever written. One night when i was doing college radio, a female called me to request this song. She told me she needed to hear the song to help her child get through a tough fight with a illness so I played the song. It turns out her daughter had already died 10 year prior to our conversation and that she was still in grief. I felt so bad becasue music can fill a void if we only listen to the message behind the song.

  • Co-sign @doubleolove ~ '90 was a good, musical year! LOL I imagine a great (grand)parent, friend or even gracious God experience this sentiment for all of us from birth, when "the subtleness of you & me" was all we knew. Find your way back... in p(e)ace!

  • The Iain Lee/Barry from Watford version is better.

  • @samdobson565 Just uploaded it! Quality radio!! ;)

  • Her voice is incredible..... 

  • I have always loved this song since hearing it in 1990. I never tire of listening to it. This entire CD from Donny's Daughter- her first- is amazing. Yes, I know Vesta Williams did it 4 years earlier but Lalah's rendition will always be my favorite! Thanks for posting so I can enjoy it! :)

  • one of my all time favorite jams!

  • World vibe radio is playing this on the internet check it out wvrvibe.com

  • THIS ONE IS A HEART FELT SONG....it will always be one of my favorites.

  • Classic, i love this lady's voice!!!!

  • I remember when I was at Boston University, and Lalah was at the conservatory also in Boston, how close I felt to her in that we were both from Chicago, and in a strange place; a year later, she brought out this music, and I could hear her father singing though her.

  • One of my favorites, early 90's I think. Not so long ago but it's a song I'll always like and remember the times back then. Used to listen to this all night long.

  • i remember this great song!

  • I was in love with this song when I first heard it while stationed in Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield/Storm. What a silky smooth voice she has. I love this song.!!!!!

  • @lisastokes1000 I too was stationed at fleet hospital 15 in Saudi Arabia when I first heard Lalah Hathaway's version of this song. It's so much smoother than Vesta William's version....

  • Im a 41 yo male, former marine, dad of 2 girls, this song reminds my of all the good that is and was in my life

  • What happened to the singers that made music like this?

  • Love this song!!!! Now this is real music!

  • I like Vesta's version, BUT I LOVE THIS VERSION!!!

  • love this song. i thought my mom was depressed when she played this when i was a child. now im 30 and im playing it like she did with candles lit and a glass of wine. she was just in her mood.

  • @igot3ba Your mom sounds like me- the moody type (but there's nothing inherently wrong with that). I used to listen to this along with Alexander Oneal's "Sentimental."

  • this was one of my favorite tracks on this tape...

  • She has the same timbre in her voice that her legendary father had.

  • @TheMrProtocol YOu are SO SO right..I've ALWAYS said that...Isn't that just amazing how they share pretty much similar vocal tones? Blows me away..she really is daddy's legacy and doing a WONDERFUL JOB..Go Lalah..

  • my cousin Carmen got me hooked on Lalah's cd this i the shit i'm coming back good riding song thanks cuz

  • DTM I want to let you know that I'm coming back! Everything is different! One of my favorite songs by Lalah! "I'm gonna be by your side day and night, thru the rest of my life, so open up your heart for me, I'm coming back for you"! I'm coming back just to give you my love DTM! :-)

  • Iv'e always loved this song. heartpounding when in love. Thanks Lalah, I finally found you here. Couldn't spell 1st name right and lost this CD! God Bless! Tc eckstine!

  • this song has meing to it for the ones that love so much and lost thet love just rember the good times and they will find you .

  • Brings tears to my eyes,,,,,ahhh the memories.

  • Classic!

  • My senior year on the class trip to Florida...walkman with this tape and song...playing over, and over...and, over :0)...

  • Me too!

  • You get love for that, alone ;)...

  • Wow...i bought this Tape just before i enlisted in the air force...i had it hidden(with my walkman) in the ceiling panels of the day-room in San Antonio AFB ....memories of my ex-fiancee, lol...

  • I'm coming back to...New Orleans Essence Fest to see Lalah again!

  • she was mega talented beyond her years back then...WoW this was the music that teenagers listened to in the 90's...teenagers with taste in music LOL

  • I listened to this song every night on my local radio station's Quiet Storm growing up. Great memories. I feel sorry for young people today. They don't have beautiful love songs like this to listen to. They just have "artists" like T-Pain and Lil Wayne promoting over-the-top sexuality. Let's hope real music like this comes back, no pun intended.

  • @thatsmrdouglas2u

    I listened to this on my local radio station's Quiet Storm too! ( the original one, WHUR in DC) Ditto on your whole comment-- Poor thangs!

  • love this song ...

  • These lyrics is serious!! I love this.. I've been singing this song since I was like 11.. Such a fan! Beautiful voice! Timeless!

  • friggin amazing !!! aahh me gusta me gusta lol

  • For the ones that didnt know Lalah Hathway She is a beautiful person and has a wonderful voice just get the albums and believe me you wont be disappointed

  • My mom said she new I could sing when she heard me sing this song.

  • I love this song. It is a classic. Can't play it enough. Thanks Ms. Hathaway.

  • I really love this. I can't stop listening to it ^_^

  • This music is for the grown & sexy. JUST FREAKIN' UNBELIVABLE THAT THIS WAS POSTED. Beautiful, soothing, & hits the soul!!!!!!

  • i absolutely love this song! Thanks Lailah Hathaway

  • Great Cut! Brings back memories of my days at Howard University and........you know who you are.

  • Oh this is an old cut! WOW brings back so many good memories!

  • I know it did blacqwolff. I could feel it. You were on the money.

  • if you really listen to her, and knew how her dad sang, she sings very similar to how he sang when he was here.

  • I agree with you remy.... i love her dad's style of singing and she does emulates his style

  • I hear you blacqwolf. she got Donny's back. God Bless both of them.

  • thank you ,it came from the heart.

  • donny,you can rest well brother,your daughter's got your back.she will carry the torch for you.

  • she is the desendant of the late ,great donny hathaway,she has his singing spirit,he will live forever thru his daughter.that's the gospel truth.....HOLLA ,IF YA HEAR ME!!!!!

  • This is my songggggggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!­!Check out the change at 4:31 through 4:37******It's my favorite :)***

  • "I'm coming back, just to give you my love, there's a part of me that lives in you, in you" .... Oh, i love this

  • ....."Reach out and call me....I'm gonna be by your side..day and night.....thru the rest of my life"......So open up your heart for me..I'm comin back for you...."

  • "loving you's the best thing i can do" ....... hell yeah

  • @atrienneyates78 that part is very soothing

  • This is my song...boy..oh..boy..

  • This is a very powerful song if you listen closely.

  • one of my favorite songs

  • I Love this song!!! Thanks for posting!!

  • This song gives me goose bumps, lawd have mercy!!!

  • This is one of my favorite songs!!! Lalah still sounds great!! Like father, like daughter!!!

  • @ Brownsugar956

    That's funny, because I did the same thing! I also had to find Lalah her songs after I saw that tribute video. It was a tribute video of Florence Griffith-Joyner. Do you also have the "I Gotta Move On" song?

  • 'I Gotta Move On' is, in my opinion, the best song on that CD.

  • Wow, I was looking at track vids during the Olympics last year and came across that vid of Flo Jo and I had to find out who was singing that song.

  • @Brownsugar956 Me too. lol at least I wasn't the only one.

  • @Brownpride88 Stiilll one of my all time favorite songs. If I listen to it more than two

    times back to back I'm in serious danger of crying-.. And that's not on no sucker shit- i just reminds me of the good ol days. Plus, I was in Desert Storm when this came out- so it takes me back to a time and place when life was much more promising

  • This is her best work but that's just me...

  • @gump489 love this song. i thought my mom was depressed when she played this when i was a child. now im 30 and im playing it like she did with candles lit and a glass of wine. she was just in her mood.

  • I must agree......simply love this cd

  • This song can actually make you consider reconciling with your mate in the midst of a break up!!! Now that's powerful!!!

  • God Bless GARY & LAYLA!!!!!

  • did anyone know Vesta Williams did this song first on her first solo project?...;o)

  • Really? Was that the project that came out in '87 with "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"? I have the CD here in my hands and it saids "L.Hathaway" as the writter of this jammie! Holla at ya boy!

  • kimmie12213

    i love this song and this song is sad and lovely and all of the people love it

  • CLASSIC!!! I play her 1st CD like it is new!!! AWESOME!!

  • ok so now somebody needs to put the song , "I gotta move on' on he net. It was on the same album.

  • such a beautiful song! my favorite from lalah hathaway. rated 5 stars! thanks Brownsugar956 for the upload

  • this is one of the 1st singles I ever bought. I like this lady's voice & I still remember the lyrics.

    -Shenatta

  • Shenatta, if you ever get a chance. Please go see her LIVE! This recording doesn't come close to doing her talent justice. Lalah is AWESOME! Take care!

  • I remember waiting by the radio to hear this song again so I can record it over a blank tape.

  • u 2?! I couldn't afford to buy everyone's release. My taping skillz r ragged, but that's ok, the goal was always accomplished...gettin' d'song.

    TGIF,

    Shenatta