Peak
2
Weeks
30
Score
7,500
Chart Year
1996
"It's All Coming Back to Me Now" is the first track on Canadian singer Celine Dion's fourth English-language studio album, Falling into You (1996). Jim Steinman produced the track, with Steven Rinkoff and Roy Bittan credited as co-producers. Bat Out of Hell and Meat Loaf collaborators Todd Rundgren, Eric Troyer, Rory Dodd, Glen Burtnick and Kasim Sulton provided backing vocals. This version utilized a modified version of the original Pandora's Box track with Caswell's vocals and certain instrumental passages removed.[19] It peaked at number two on Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks, becoming the thirty-fourth biggest number two Hot 100 hit of all time.[20] The full-length version of the song is the version that appears on Falling into You and is seven minutes and thirty-seven seconds long. A radio edit of the song was made, which appears on all editions of Dion's first English-language greatest hits album, All the Way... A Decade of Song (1999), and lasts for five minutes and thirty-one seconds. The song was also included in Dion's 2008 greatest hits compilation My Love: Essential Collection. Live performances can be found on the A New Day... Live in Las Vegas and Taking Chances World Tour: The Concert albums. Dion performed this song during her Falling Into You: Around the World tour 1996/1997, Let's Talk About Love World Tour 1998/1999, Taking Chances World Tour 2008/2009, two Las Vegas residencies, A new Day... and Celine, Tournée Européenne 2013, Summer Tour 2016,[21] 2017 European tour and her 2018 tour. She performed the song during her British Summer Time concert in London's Hyde Park on 5 July 2019, and also opened her 2019-2020 Courage World Tour show with the song.
There were nights When the wind was so cold That my body froze in bed If I just listened to it Right outside the window There were days When the sun was so cruel That all the tears turned to dust And I just knew my eyes Were drying up forever I finished crying in The instant that you left And I can't remember Where or when or how And I banished every memory You and I had ever made But when you touch me like this And you hold you like that I just have to admit that It's all coming back to me When I touch you like this And I hold you like that It's so hard to believe But it's all coming back to me It's all coming back It's all coming back to me now There were moments of gold And there were flashes of light There were things I'd never do again But then, they'd always seemed right There were nights of endless pleasure It was more than any laws allow Baby, baby If I kiss you like this And if you whisper like that It was lost long ago But it's all coming back to me If you want me like this And if you need me like that It was dead long ago But it's all coming back to me It's so hard to resist And it's all coming back to me I can barely recall but It's all coming back to me now But it's all coming back There were those Empty threats and hollow lies And whenever you tried to hurt me I just hurt you even worse And so much deeper There were hours That just went on for days When alone at last We'd count up all the chances That were lost to us forever (forever) But you were history With the slamming of the door And I made myself So strong again somehow And I never wasted any of My time on you since then But if I touch you like this And if you kiss me like that It was so long ago But it's all coming back to me If you touch me like this And if I kiss you like that It was gone with the wind But it's all coming back to me It's all coming back It's all coming back to me now There were moments of gold And there were flashes of light There were things I'd never do again But then, they'd always seemed right There were nights of endless pleasure It was more than all your laws allow Baby, baby, baby When you touch me like this And whe you hold me like that It was gone with the wind But it's all coming back to me When you see me like this And when I see you like that Then we see what we want to see All coming back to me The flesh and the fantasies All coming back to me I can barely recall but It's all coming back to me now If you forgive me all this If I forgive you all that We forgive and forget And it's all coming back to me now When you see me like this And when I see you like that We see just what we want to see All coming back to me The flesh and the fantasies All coming back to me I can barely recall but It's all coming back to me now It's all coming back to me now And when you kiss me like this It's all coming back to me now And when I touch you like that It's all coming back to me now And if you do it like this It's all coming back to me now And if we
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 17, 1996 | 27 | 99 |
| 2 | Aug 24, 1996 | 14 | 112 |
| 3 | Aug 31, 1996 | 14 | 112 |
| 4 | Sep 7, 1996 | 12 | 114 |
| 5 | Sep 14, 1996 | 7 | 119 |
| 6 | Sep 21, 1996 | 4 | 122 |
| 7 | Sep 28, 1996 | 3 | 123 |
| 8 | Oct 5, 1996 | 3 | 123 |
| 9 | Oct 12, 1996 | 3 | 123 |
| 10 | Oct 19, 1996 | 3 | 123 |
| 11 | Oct 26, 1996 | 2 | 124 |
| 12 | Nov 2, 1996 | 2 | 124 |
| 13 | Nov 9, 1996 | 2 | 124 |
| 14 | Nov 16, 1996 | 2 | 124 |
| 15 | Nov 23, 1996 | 2 | 124 |
| 16 | Nov 30, 1996 | 3 | 123 |
| 17 | Dec 7, 1996 | 5 | 121 |
| 18 | Dec 14, 1996 | 6 | 120 |
| 19 | Dec 21, 1996 | 7 | 119 |
| 20 | Dec 28, 1996 | 8 | 118 |