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Phil Collins used his lyrics to describe how he is feeling and it brings out the mood of the song, that it is depressing. The song is about his divorce with his first wife Andrea, but a lot of people has had their own interpretations where they came up with a myth that he saw someone watch his friend drown and that person didn't bother to help. That's a dumb myth though because I'm pretty sure he woud've reported it to the police and that everyone would know who his friend is. His lyrics were easily misunderstood because of how he worded it. It's really descriptive because it talks about drowning.