supposedly its about him watching a kid drown and the guy that could help him didnt and let him die. so he invited the guy to his concert front row and sang the song to him."i been waiting for this moment, all my life." true or myth?
2006-11-17 05:38:59 · 10 answers · asked by aligrespeq 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
actually it's about one of my beer farts while boozing it up with mr. collins.
he was not happy i took his wallet that night, he fainted from the aroma... thank god we were outside... the stench soon dissipated and i made off like a bandit.
he later invited me to one of his concerts... i wore a mask but he picked me out of the audience and leaped at me.. but the fans caught mr. collins and that very day he invented the mosh.
:D
2006-11-17 05:46:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Phil Collins Drowning Story
2016-11-04 12:31:53 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats an old myth, according to Collins ..................
Years later, Collins commented on the legends about the song in a BBC World Service interview:
I don't know what this song is about. When I was writing this I was going through a divorce. And the only thing I can say about it is that it's obviously in anger. It's the angry side, or the bitter side of a separation. So what makes it even more comical is when I hear these stories which started many years ago, particularly in America, of someone come up to me and say, 'Did you really see someone drowning?' I said, 'No, wrong'. And then every time I go back to America the story gets Chinese whispers, it gets more and more elaborate. It's so frustrating, 'cos this is one song out of all the songs probably that I've ever written that I really don't know what it's about, you know.
2006-11-17 06:12:49 · answer #3 · answered by Jon J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For sure it's a myth. You can read several interviews with Phil talking about it, that in fact the song is about "nothing special", and the anger we hear comes from the fact he was getting a divorce (thus, thinking about it) when he wrote this particular music.
Funny there are several versions to this: First time I heard it, it wasn't a kid, but his best friend that drowned. Another version I heard was that there wasn't a third person who didn't help, only Phil and his friend (the guy drowned because Phil didn't know how to swim, and had to live with the fact that he let his best friend die).
2006-11-17 05:51:05 · answer #4 · answered by winter_of_souls 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah it's just a myth....
As Phil Collins has explained numerous times over the years, "In the Air Tonight" (as well as most of the Face Value album) deals with his bitterness and frustration over the end of his marriage to his first wife, and the lyrics do not reference any specific real-life event.
2006-11-17 05:43:20 · answer #5 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-30 14:07:03 · answer #6 · answered by mccasland 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Myth. Right up there with alligators as big as Humvees roaming the sewers in NYC...
2006-11-17 05:54:52 · answer #7 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No... It is figurative not literal and it is about Divorce and cheating, not literally "drowning." as in water but drowning as in
"I told ya so, ha ha ha...".
2006-11-17 05:47:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope. it's a myth. it's about his divorce.
2006-11-17 05:54:07 · answer #9 · answered by lunachick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats kinda the story
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2006-11-17 05:41:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋