"She Comes in Colors" is a song written by Arthur Lee and released by Love as a single in 1966 and on their 1967 album Da Capo. It was also included on a number of Love compilation albums, including Love Revisted and Best of Love and on the multi-artist compilation album Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra 1963-1973.

Although modern critics have praised the song as being "sublime," or a "timeless jewel" or as possibly the best song Lee ever wrote, at the time of its release as a single it failed to make the Billboard Hot 100. Lee and some music critics believed that "She Comes in Colors" was a source for the Rolling Stones' song "She's a Rainbow," and several music critics and record company executives also believe that it influenced Madonna's "Beautiful Stranger," although Madonna has denied this. The song was also covered by several artists, including the Hooters.

Inspiration for "She Comes in Colors" came from the clothing worn by Love fan Annette Ferrell, who was also a friend of Arthur Lee. Love guitarist Johnny Echols recalls that the song "was about this girl named Annette who would come to all our shows wearing these outrageous gypsy clothes." The lyrics include a line about being in "England town," although Lee had never been to England when he wrote the song. The guitar riff was influenced by folk rock. Instrumentation of Love's recording of the song includes harpsichord played by Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer and flute played by Tjay Cantrelli. Echols remembers "She Comes in Colors" to be the most difficult song on Da Capo to record, because it incorporated a lot of "strange chords."

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