no, in the air tonight is not about phil collins watching a guy drown

saw this one again in a

lol datawrangler your post cut off right at "saw this one again in a"... in a facebook group? a tiktok? tbh my brain is filling in the blank anyway because ive seen it everywhere too!! tbh he's said it a million times, he wrote it while his first marriage was falling apart and he mostly made up the lyrics on the spot in the studio it's just angry divorce feelings, there's no guy drowning and no one standing there watching!! like, the part i find funny is he got so sick of people asking that he started saying something like "if you saw someone drowning, i'd help." which is reasonable lol

anyway i'm pretty sure i was listening to this on my headphones last weekend when i was supposed to be set

yeah he's been saying it for like forty years and nobody listens. lowkey the legend just keeps going, Eminem even put it in Stan. at this point the drowning story is more famous than the song... what gets me is people would rather believe a guy let someone drown and then sang about it at him from the front row than accept he was just mad about his divorce and making words up over a drum machine 🤦

saw this one again in a.

wait in a WHAT?? dont leave us hanging lol 😂 finish the sentence before i lose my mind 🚀