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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about In The Air Tonight (page 2/ 4) ------ performed by Phil Collins i hope you're not serious... | Reviewer: cari | 1/9/09 is everyone here trying to come up with the most outlandish theory about this song? is it like a contest or something? i don't know what the song is about, but i do know it has nothing to do with chickens or drowning. dan's infidelity theory makes the most sense, but i can also believe he (phil) doesn't know what it means. sometimes that just happens. and i can't help rolling my eyes at the chicken drowners. An Infidelity | Reviewer: Dan | 6/10/2008 | Reviewer: mgnssn | 11/6/08 Excelent Interpretation, Dan I've been all these years listening to this song, and its heavy load of hate and wish for revenge... The words of the narrator would be in my mouth if i ever find the bastard that shot my father dead. So I assume that this song could be "sung" to a murderer that kills someone dear to the narrator, the narrator being present in the crime. Spankin the Monkey | Reviewer: johnny be good | 10/1/08 I know for a fact that this song is about spankin the monkey. Hence the fact that "he could feel it in the air tonight." He was lending his hand to his monkey so it wouldn't drown. He then feed his monkey and then he spanked his monkey!!!! That's how the song was wrote. Its a song about his broken marriage!! | Reviewer: Hayds | 7/10/08 u guys are all wrong its about his failing marriage... “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." This is fact | Reviewer: David | 7/1/08 Many years ago when phil was a child him and his best friend were out playing near a river .they ran into three bullys ,the bullys pushed phil and his friend around then threw phils young friend into the river.the boy could not swim nor could phil ,the bullys forced phil to watch as his friend drowned.the bullys then threw phil in but soon after someone came so the bullys ran away.phil managed to reach safety and keep this story a secret until he would write this song.He tracked down the three men when he was older and famous he invited them to a concert and gave them front row tickets and sung this song at them, staring at them, constantly pointing at them and also with the spotlight on them... after the concert one of the men drove his car off the side of a bridge and died.Another went home and hung himself on a rope.and the last man shot himself in the face after hearing the song and all knowing it was aimed directly at them. Alien Abduction | Reviewer: Albert Taylor | 6/22/08 This song is about Phil witnessing an alien abduction. The man he is talking about looks human but is not. Phil remembers all the sensation of night of the abduction and now senses them again and knows that another abduction ia about to take place, hence, "I can feel it coming in the air tonight." An Infidelity | Reviewer: Dan | 6/10/08 I've been looking at the lyrics on this site and I can see a different side to this song. Many people have been citing how it's about witnessing a drowning as a child. This may well have come from the line "Well if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand." In my personal opinion, this is probably no more than an offset, a graphic depiction of his resentment towards this person, he would rather see him die than try to save him, such is his dislike. As for what I think it is, it could well be about an affair. At first I thought it could've been the narrator confronting his wife about what he saw. The line "Well I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with my own two eyes" suggests that the narrator had seen the couple engaged in relations rather than just hearing it from another person. The constant refrain "I can feel it coming in the air tonight" suggests that he might've had revenge on his mind, or far worse. When I looked closer though, I thought that he might've been confronting the other man. Consider lines like "It's the first time, the last time we ever met". This suggests that they hadn't met before, that the other guy was a total stranger and the last part of that line suggests that he may indeed have murder on his mind. Another line that strikes me is "I've seen your face before my friend, but I don't know if you know who I am", that the other guy doesn't know that the narrator is the womans husband/boyfriend, that he knows of the other mans infidelities. So it may well be a million miles away from what other people had guessed it to be about. That's my interpretation anyway. You're wrong. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/20/08 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." re: Chicken Drownings | Reviewer: Abu | 4/16/08 Hell yeah!! I am with Ziekial on this one. I heard that story too. It is all about chicken drownings. That damn man was just drowning chickens like it was nothing! I am a chicken lover and I am also pissed just like Ol' Philly! So I know for a fact this song is about chicken drowning and how Ol' Philly saw the Chicken Drowner drown them chickens. drowning | Reviewer: Gabe Partain | 4/11/08 This song is about when Phil was fishing as a young boy. He sees a man across the lake purposely drowning his son. Phil can't help and keeps the story to himself for years. Years after he starts his music career, he invites this man to his concert with front row seats. They put the spotlight on the man and Phil Collins sings this song while staring at the man the whole time. The man was arrested soon after the concert, and died of a heart attack a week later. This is not some rumor or something. Phil Collins told this story on the radio a while back. So thats pretty much it... Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4