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Phil Collins in the air tonight true meaning?

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    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Collins wrote the song in the wake of a failing relationship with his wife.

    This lyrics is just a metaphor for hating someone.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    3 young boys were swimming and a stranger come up and caught of of the buys the other 2 got away and drounded the boy he caught and so many years later phil Collins noticed the man who took his friends life and invited him to his concert and sang the song In the air tonight and after Ward the man was arrested.

  • 8 years ago

    He said in an interview it was about the ending of his marriage.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    It was about the end of his marriage apparently.

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