"Coming Back to Life" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album The Division Bell, and is the only track from the album to be credited solely to David Gilmour.

Gilmour has said (as can be heard on the David Gilmour in Concert DVD) that the song was written about his wife, Polly Samson.^[1]

• David Gilmour – vocals, guitars
• Richard Wright – Kurzweil synthesisers, Hammond organ
• Nick Mason – drums

Additional musicians:

• Guy Pratt – bass guitar
• Gary Wallis – percussion

The song has been a staple in Gilmour's performances from 1994 to 2016. It was one of the songs performed on rotation during the 1994 Division Bell Tour, at every one of Gilmour's semi-acoustic shows in 2001 and 2002, at Gilmour's performance at the Fender Stratocaster 50th anniversary concert in London in 2004, and was played at most shows during his solo 2006 On an Island Tour. It became a staple of shows during the 2015-16 Rattle That Lock Tour.

The song appears on the following live albums, DVDs or Blu-rays:

• Pulse (album) (Pink Floyd, 1995)
• Pulse (VHS/DVD) (Pink Floyd, 1995 [VHS], 2003 [DVD])
• David Gilmour in Concert (DVD) (David Gilmour, 2002)
• Remember That Night (DVD/Blu-ray) (David Gilmour, 2007)
• Live in Gdańsk (album, deluxe edition bonus CD) (David Gilmour, 2008)
• Live at Pompeii (album, DVD/BD) (David Gilmour, 2017)