Carly Simon wrote "Coming Around Again" for the 1986 movie Heartburn, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, and directed by Mike Nichols. In the film, Nicholson and Streep get married late in life. Financially they're well-off, but finding fulfillment in their union proves a challenge, especially when they have a baby. Simon imbues the song with their relationship, depicting a woman who is reaching a breaking point as she navigates the vagaries of domestic life with a man who isn't fully supportive. "Don't mind if I fall apart," she tells him. "There's more room in a broken heart."
Simon could certainly relate to the woman in this song; her marriage to James Taylor had ended in divorce, and she had two children. Many of her songs paint a picture of her life at that the time she wrote them. She wrote the song at her home in Martha's Vineyard, which she shared with Taylor when they were married.
"Coming Around Again" plays under the end credits of Heartburn, which opened in theaters in July 1986. No official soundtrack was released, but the song was issued as a single a few months later and reached its chart peak of #18 in January 1987, long after the movie was out of theaters. In April, the song became the title track to Simon's 13th album. By this time, her audience had matured and she was no longer the pop star she was in the '70s, but she remained a relevant and incisive singer-songwriter. She proved quite adept at writing songs for movies; in 1988 she wrote and performed "Let The River Run" for another Mike Nichols film, Working Girl. That one won the Oscar for Best Song.
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