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The speaker discussed the song in detail, including a common urban myth that the song was about a man who let someone drown. The speaker thought the song was cruel because the lyrics state that the singer wouldn't help someone who was drowning.
I have a question about that Phil Collins song.
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Episode: Sam Morril is a Vulcan
The speaker discussed the song in detail, including a common urban myth that the song was about a man who let someone drown. The speaker thought the song was cruel because the lyrics state that the singer wouldn't help someone who was drowning.
I have a question about that Phil Collins song.
What is that song about?
Is it about like sexual assault or some type of rape or something?
No, I think it's about a guy.
Is that true that it's about the guy drowning? Because I've heard that that's an urban myth.
What are you doing?
I'm going to get the lyrics on my phone.
Yeah, I can't read it.
That's how I always know my own.
What's the song called?
In the Air Tonight.
In the Air Tonight.
Okay, read it out Bobby.
Hold on, Air Tonight.
I can't read that because of my eyes.
So tonight, In the Air Tonight, lyrics.
Let me just do it, all right?
Stop doing whatever you're doing, okay?
All right, here we go.
Let's just go by line by line.
You know what I mean?
Or like a Harry Potter, what are those like wraiths in the Harry Potter?
The mentors.
The mentors, right?
That could be anything.
I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, so a mentor, okay?
Can you feel it coming through the air tonight?
Oh, now it's getting weird.
He keeps repeating it.
Oh Lord, oh Lord.
Yeah, yeah, and he goes, if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand.
Oh, help!
It's not about drowning.
Oh, okay, sorry about that.
Listen, look, he's really mad at this person.
I would not lend a hand.
I've seen your face before my friend, but I don't know if you know who I am.
Well, I was there and I saw what you did.
I saw it with my own two eyes.
So you can wipe off that.
But you've heard this urban legend that this is about a person that someone let drown and then he confronted him by bringing him to the concert and singing this song.
So it is a drowning.
What a cruel thing to do.
Not lend a hand.
Because everyone's so focused on when the drums actually come in and it's such a great song.
But I've always thought that...
There's drums in the song?
Come back, come back, please.
What are you doing?
It's more distracting this way, so go back.
Rick, what are you doing, dude?
What's wrong with you?
Don't make more of this.
I'm sorry, I had one little thing.
I did.
You're funny.