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  • o_o ... genius. plain genius.

  • epic drum roll 3.18

  • i love this song im only 11 years old and u drumed to this song

  • Soooo Good it makes my balls tingle!

  • THE BEST OF THE BEST !!

  • 3:19 looooove.

  • best...drum solo...EVER!

  • @PAINfullyOWNED haha raywilliamjohnson

  • All those stories are bull. He said it in an interview with Steve Sabol (NFL films), he was surprised many football players used it t get hyped up before games.

  • woow.....very .......FUKING AWESOME!!

  • I think its about lots of things all of use have commented and he can feel stuff in the air maybe like a ghost like all his friends and families,

    And RWR,

    May Your Dad Rest In Peace

  • The best version...

    Search for "Phil Collins Max"

    :)

  • the song takes a magnificent transformation in the last phase

  • i think it is about his wife died that night and he song this song

  • i love this song of my dad he died we where driving down the road with this song and a truck hit us on driver side and killed him and every time i listen to this song i cry so hard i go to sleep for 1 day.

  • that's what i remember hearing on some talk how, but i forget.

  • it is about someone drowning. when phil and one if his best friends went out fishing they had too much to drink, his friend fell in and drowned... it's sad really, especialy that he couldn't help him.

  • Never Mind

  • when does it say I REMEBAAAA?

  • super fuckin' great thank you

  • lol stewie was singing this xD

    wickedd song :D

  • Very good song I love the beat the video I'm not such a big fan of doe but why is every one debating over if he really watch someone drown its just a song imean really.

  • good song, aint it bout sum1 drowning?

  • Phil said this in a BBC 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'.."

    Read about it on wikipedia.

  • why does everything have to have an answer...its open to interpretation or may just be as he said an angry response to a bad divorce.....JEEZ!!!

  • Good Song !!!!

  • This 1 is the best of the "Miami Vice('80)" Soundtracks! Wonderfull!

    We love you Phil!

  • er if he wrote this about him watching someone drowning. why the hell didnt he try to get them out?

  • J'adore ce chanteur...

  • This track was in a beer commercial called Michelob if I am not mistaken.

  • it is about him watching someone drowning some one theres a documentary on it

  • If you think that Phil Collins wrote this song about some faggot drowning then you are a retard.

  • Look it up and you'll feel retarded

  • umm actually he wrote this during his divorce and he has no clue what it was really about. he just wrote it to make him feel better the drums represent his anger over it. understand?

  • @starkiller20293 I heard he wrote this about a friend (for example: Bob) that let one of his (Phil) closest friends die in front of him (Bob). Now his friend (Bob) is having a close friend die and it happens in front of Phil. So he 'got back' at his friend (Bob).

  • lol Collins has said himself that he doesn't know why everyone thinks its about someone drowning, and that he just wrote it out of anger during a bad divorce with his wife.

  • well listen to the song stan and then come back and play this

  • A truly gifted artist

  • this song touches my soul with finger tips like the mid night breeze does

  • yet it has such bad drums.. i heard ones on radio av ersion with good drums

  • O MY GOD I LOVE THA GUY. HE IS THE HERO.

  • this song touch me in the soul awesome

  • in the lyrics it states it nite time and he would have to be old enough to know who this man was

  • Great Song,I've Always Loved it!!!

  • phil collins had a best friend at around the age of 13 and they were playing by the ice and his friend fell in. there was a man that came by and said ill go for help and never cam back phil collins spent so long searching for this man and put him front row of this concert and sang this the man left in disgrace because he knew what he had done.

  • wow pretty decent basket of bullshit you loaded up there. check the more info section on the side and do your research dork.

  • Sounds like a "Lifetime" feature.

    Really, where did you hear that bull?

  • Phil collins saw someone drowning and he was to far away to do anything.He dod see some1 who could save him.... but he didnt.phil theninvited the man to a concert and sang this song to him.Its sad........

  • yeah great story except it says what the song is about in the more info section. cute though

  • my old school parents got me hooked on this song

  • Wow, the video really captures the song's mood! All the darkness and shadow fit with the pain and anger he feels. I love the drum machine pattern and the drum solo at 3:19!

  • I think people shuld stop thinking that Phill collins sore a man drown etcc,, In that Box over there >>> It ses what the song is about, People shuld readd .

  • Opps i mean I like this on that movie the new guy. haha

  • I this on the movie "The New Guy" wannabe cool dude on there haha.

  • I don't give a shit about makeup, but I do like Phil Collins, so yes, I will forget about it ...

  • ganz geil

  • dedicated to all muds!

  • the song was written while he was going through a bad divorce

  • wat the fuck R yall smoking,its a good song fuck Y he wrote it,if it's going 2 B that depressing,Mr.Collins just created a masterpieace when he dropped this 1

  • it is a great song but i hate when people say he wrote it because of this and that my mom met him 1 time

  • a girl i worked with said this song was about a guy that mollested Phil Collins.....she said that she heard Phil Collins talk about it, what an idiot she is

  • no it is about some guy that had drowned and he saw it all and did not save him from dieing so he came back to haunt phil

  • yea this is a bad ass song!!!!

  • I love this song:)

  • man the fuking 80's ruled

  • this is my favorite song and im 12

  • lol, me too!

  • ZOMG i love this song.. i grew up on it... but when i saw the film clip 4 it it used 2 scare me. lol. cya

  • 3:19 is like the climax to a really good orgasim.

  • (Intrigued from a psychological standpoint)

    Really, how so?

  • lol well said.

  • LEGENDARY!!!

  • This is truly one of the greatest songs in music history.

  • the drums are wat make this song "great"

  • good song!

  • this song is amazing

    :D

  • Im love phill collins and im only 11 most kids say phill collins is shit but i dont hes awesome and my favorite musician of all time ive listened to his for 9 years straight

  • Good to see some kids still stick to the classics.

  • i was like 8 when my dad turn the radio on to a classic station and this song was playing i just completely loove this when i heard for the first time (Phil Collins in amazing) drummer and signer

  • best fucking song ever :]

  • the guy pulled in a drum set and caught right on the notes

  • my dad saw this concert live he said it was crazy with the drums

  • classic

  • why wont he come back to singing?. i havent heard of him in a while.. he should at least make one more album

  • this video was good

    lets chat G0

  • I absolutely LOVE this song!

  • Some amazing drumming

    Yet so simple

  • great song!

  • i looovveee this song so bad one of my favs love ya phill great song

  • i like the druming it's really awsome lol!!

  • A very haunting, atmospheric song. One of Phil's best indeed.

  • One Of Phil Collins Best.

  • great song, with one of the greatest percussion intro's everr: 3:18 - 3:21 probably one of the coolest yet most simple

  • great song

  • read the comments above about that but he says it was a very confusing angry time with his exwife divorcing him, but to tell you the truth any one could match that with any other angry situtation and point that to phil collins.

  • That's eally wierd cause when i posted that other comment I didn't even read the description which had the exact same thing that i said in it

  • Ok, listen to the song stan and it will tell a brief explanation of this song in the end when stan is in the car.

  • The song is about what happens when you try to keep secrets! Like Politicians...just another lie!

  • No, he's just mad

  • WKED SONG

  • All you guys that get into silly fights r so stupid. Its a music video, who cares, enjoy it and if you dont.. WHY THE HELL R U LISTENING TO IT?

  • LOL alrite mate im entitled to my opinion, i just think that this particular video is poor quality thats all!! trickyfeet dont get to uptight

  • what does phil trying to tell in this song ? i didnt understand at all

  • He was really mad

  • wat the hell does any of this have to do with drowning!!!!

  • Das Song ist super schön! ;)

    ICH LIEBE IHN! Bei diesem Song

    kommen mir immer die Tränen, weil es sehr

    schöne Momente waren zu dieser zeit. ;(

    DAS IST EINER DER BESTEN SONG'S AUF

    DIESER WELT!!! :D

  • I love this song since I was 10 years old! I miss the silence and the emotions in soe songs, today!

  • nonpoint's cover is better in my opinion, but this is a classic, but it's too.... softish

  • I have been Wondering what the name of this song i for so Long im so glad i found it

    Im 15 But i like this type of music better than what the produce today

  • one of the best songs ever created no doubt. especially the so called "story" behind it...whether its true or not its an intense story

  • POOR QUALITY OR WHAT!!!!

  • WHAT! because the song quality is awesome maybe not the video but Phil didnt make the song for you to watch the video idiot music videos ruin the song

  • badass song

  • okayy so this song is pretty amazing

    no matter how many times i listen to it, it never gets old!

  • bullshit yes it does

  • uhmm then wtff you listening too?

    look +4...whatcha got to say now?

  • good

  • hey im black..

    and to me this is a iight song...

    THE BEAT IS SO SMOOTH AND HARD!!!

    BUT HIT VOICE REALLY MAKES THE SONG

  • Yes

  • cookieookie, yeah basically. Well, you and all the other people out their with horrible taste in music.

  • oh ok good for you, you don't have to insult me for a comment I made. Go do what you want.

  • such an american classic!

    if you havent heard dis song den wow

  • American Classic??

    Not exactly.

    It was a hit in England first, long before the US took notice.

    It didn't take off in America until it was part of the pilot for Miami Vice. And they used it in subsequent episodes.

    For some reason, some people still think Collins stole this from Miami Vice.

    Idiots!!!

  • This song gives me the same chills as the 1996 Chicago Bulls. Freezing sensation.

  • I have been waiting like 5 years or more to know the name of this song and the author.. finally !!

    gives me such a good vibration!!

  • It took you five years to find out the name of one of the most popular songs of all time...?

  • Yeah! As u may guess.. i just knew the melody not the lyric, singer or title.. anyone around me knew or could guess.. until today

    miracle ah??

    i bet u dont know all the popular things in this world men!

    Peace

  • An awesome song. The drumming is simply Epic. Great vocals, great music. A definate Classic

  • lyrics are a little wierd but very good song

  • thats what makes the song so great! =]

  • budget video

  • You know what else it sounds like, if you read the lyrics, it also sounds like he's talking to like a murderer or a pedofile or something. Think of that when you listen/read the lyrics and it kind of fits. It can fit into a bunch of scenarios.

  • That's partly why its so good, you can fill in its own meaning with whatever meaning suits you best.

  • LATE NIGHT RIDE OUT

  • best drummning eva!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • u kno wat i dont get bout the myth, its lik phil watch a guy watch another guy drown rite. so aint it lik phil watched the guy in the water drown to? lik he coulda saved him to but instead he wrote a song bout, the other guy bein wrong for not savin the kid in the water. but hey jus a myth so probly not tru... great song no the less, u can feel the emotion. simple beat yet affective beat to

  • this song was on miami vice on brothers

    keepers

  • wooooooooooo! great song

  • lol i heard this song on vice city stories great song!

  • so haunting if you know about the myth....i love it, and the clip is so dark and mysterious

  • kinda scary...but very good

  • well...like rest of you idk. But i heard reason he claims its not bout the drowning kid was because when they shined the spotlight on the guy it was too much for him to take..and he left and committed suicide few days later, and they didn't wish to claim to have caused that. Idk if it's true or not but...if it has nothing to do with him, why the hell was the guy there in front row? Idk i dont follow phil collins...good song though.

  • the best song in the universe

  • Thats my opinion too.

  • when i was at skl there were talkin bout the disco and played this song

  • great song

    i love his muusic

    <3

  • I remember back in the 80's , as a kid, riding in the backseat of my parent's car, this song playing with a red sunset over Montreal...magic.

  • It sounds beautiful. I should've been there.

  • this is an awsome song but if i was up there and they put the spot light on him i would kick his ass

  • i love this song

  • somebody told me his little brother drowned when they were young a grown man saw it didnt help so when collins got famous he invited the same man to his show w front row tickets

  • Jesus, the tabloid news really spreads....

  • yea thats the point of the song. its pretty sad. i want to find the first time this was live. they put the spotlight on the guy who watched his little brother died.

  • no, song was wrote cause he caught his wife cheating on him.

  • me encanta* phil collins

  • me encatan phil collins

  • best drum!!!

  • LOL, I love this song more then my wife.

  • wicked drum beat

  • This song is fucking good. The beat just gets you all fired up.

  • love this song best eva loveing dahh drums

  • i don't know why but this song gets me all fired up i love it

  • 3:16 is the best

  • awesome

  • I Can Play The Drums Like That The Base Drum Part ha it sounds sooo cool

  • Thats BASS drum buddy!

  • Phil said: "When someone says, 'Now, tell me Phil, what is it really about?', I say I don't know. I have no idea because I made it up as I went along ... I didn't know what I was singing about. I mean obviously, when you're going through a divorce, all kinds of things run through your mind. There's anger, there's bitterness, there's hurt, you know. And all that stuff is in In The Air Tonight. Menace, you know. Finally losing your temper at the end when the drums come in."

  • always will remind me of gamesworkshop münchen

  • Song reminds me of stuff like people who they love are gone

  • Proper love this song, tryed playing it on drums and broke my fingers lol