 Genius Lyrics
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Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight
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“In the Air Tonight” remains one of Phil Collins‘ best known hits. Its music video was directed by Stuart Orme and played on MTV shortly after the channel launched in 1981.
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Phil Collins – Another Day in Paradise
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A protest song released as the 7th track of 4th album But Seriously in October 1989.
Interestingly, the song was the last #1 of the 1980’s and the first of the 1990’s.
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Phil Collins – Two Hearts
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“Two Hearts” won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song alongside the Carly Simon song Let the River Run from Working Girl (with the latter having beaten the former for the
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Phil Collins – I Missed Again
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A man seems to be confused. Receiving mixed messages from a girl who has other people interested in her as well.
Like many of the songs on Face Value, “I Missed Again” is about
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Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover
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Released in 1984 on Bailey’s album Chinese Wall, “Easy Lover” is a collaboration between Phil Collins and Bailey. The song was a massive hit on both sides of the Atlantic (#2 in
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Phil Collins – One More Night
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This love song by Collins released in 1984 as a promotional single for No Jacket Required.
The song was featured in the background during a scene in the 1986 film The Color of
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Phil Collins – Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
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Taking place in the aftermath of a breakup, “Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)” is a power ballad about asking for another chance.
The song details the narrator’s feelings
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Phil Collins – Somewhere
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A girl / There's a place for us / Somewhere a place for us / Peace and quiet and open air / Wait for us / Somewhere / There's a time for us / Some day a time for us / Time together
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Phil Collins – Strangers Like Me
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[Verse 1] / Whatever you do, I'll do it too / Show me everything and tell me how / It all means something / And yet nothing to me / I can see there's so much to learn / It's all so
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Phil Collins – Take Me Home
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Often (mis)interpreted as an ode to his home, demonstrated the song’s music video.
In his 1997 appearance on “VH1 Storyellers,” Phil Collins said the song was actually inspired by
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Phil Collins – Two Worlds
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According to Billboard, this musical lullaby is the first song Phil Collins worked on with Mark Macina for the Disney movie “Tarzan”. The song is woven into the score and sets the
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Phil Collins – Can't Stop Loving You
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“Can’t Stop Loving You” was originally recorded by Phil Collins in 2000 for a love songs project along with The Least You Can Do, but both tracks were released in 2002 with Testify
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Phil Collins – Behind the Lines
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[Verse 1] / I held the book so tightly in my hands / I saw your picture, heard you call my name / It was strange, I could not look away / I had to be there, I wanted to go / [
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Phil Collins – I'm Not Moving
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[Verse 1] / If you feel it do it / You don't need a reason / For all you know it could be good for you / To show your feelings / Don't just leave them / Do the things you believe
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Phil Collins – You Can't Hurry Love
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“You Can’t Hurry Love” is a 1966 song originally recorded by The Supremes on the Motown label.
Collins wanted to try and recreate the ‘Sixties’ sound but as recording studios
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Phil Collins – I Wish It Would Rain Down
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“I Wish It Would Rain Down” is one of Phil Collins' most dramatic songs and has a demanding vocal performance. Phil Collins' vocals span from E♭3 – C5.
Eric Clapton plays lead
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Phil Collins – You Know What I Mean
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[Verse 1] / Just as I thought I'd make it / You walk back into my life / Just like you never left / Just as I'd learned to be lonely / You call up to tell me / You're not sure if
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Phil Collins – Lorenzo
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[Verse 1] / Once upon a time / I made a lion roar / He was sleeping in the sunbeams / On the old zoo floor / I had gone to see the park / Where my papa used to play / It's called
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Phil Collins – True Colors
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In 1998, the song was covered by Phil Collins for his compilation album …Hits. The version was a smooth-jazz-influenced version compared to the original.
The song clearly is about
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Phil Collins – Always (Live)
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Dreams will all come true / Being here with you / And time will fly / Caring each day more / Than the day before / Till spring rolls by / And when the springtime has gone / Will my
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Phil Collins – Father to Son
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The 11th track of the album …But Seriously, the song explores the connection Phil has with his first son Simon Collins.
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Phil Collins – Both Sides of the Story
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[Verse 1] / Find yourself in the gutter in a lonely part of town / Where death waits in the darkness with a weapon to cut some stranger down / Sleeping with an empty bottle, he's a
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Phil Collins – Don't Lose My Number
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“Don’t Lose My Number” is a song about a young man named Billy whom the singer is hoping to find, and also hoping that Billy still has the singer’s number. The song describes Billy
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Phil Collins – Something Happened on the Way to Heaven
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This is the fourth track on the album …But Seriously, released as a single on the 16th of April 1990. The song is about a person Phil loves deeply but who has abandoned him due to
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Phil Collins – Colours
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[Verse 1] / Deep inside the border / Children are crying / Fighting for food / Holding their heads / Breaking their bread with a stone / All along the roadside / People are
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Phil Collins (Ft. David Crosby) – Hero
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Well it was one of those great stories / That you can't put down at night / The hero knew what he had to do / And he wasn't afraid to fight / The villain goes to jail, while the
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Phil Collins – Thru These Walls
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[Chorus] / I can hear through these walls / I can hear it when they're fooling around / I can hear through these walls / And I hear every sigh, every sound / I can hear through
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Phil Collins – My Girl (Live)
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I've got sunshine on a cloudy day / And when it's cold outside / I've got the month of May / I guess you'll say / What can make me feel this way / My girl, I'm Talking about my
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Phil Collins – A Groovy Kind of Love
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The song is a cover of the Mindbenders song from 1966, taken from the movie Buster, a film in which Phil Collins starred in himself. This is a cover of the song of the same name
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Phil Collins – Only You Know and I Know
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‘Only You Know And I Know’ is about a couple on the brink of separating.
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Phil Collins – (Love Is Like a) Heatwave
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“Heat Wave” is a 1963 song penned by the Holland–Dozier–Holland songwriting team. It was first made popular by the American Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas.
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Phil Collins – Look Through My Eyes
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The song, featured over the credits of Disney’s “Brother Bear” (2003), lyrically is about a person telling to another to stop fearing and looking through the first person’s eyes
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Phil Collins – Welcome
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Two versions of the song exist. The song (whose lyrics are presented here) is performed solely by Phil Collins, but the soundtrack album also offers the movie version that also
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Phil Collins – No Way Out (Theme from Brother Bear)
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In the movie this song marks an emotional turning point in which Kenai admits that he killed Koda’s mother through a story that’s “… kind of about a man and kind of about a bear
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Phil Collins – Do You Remember?
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Single from the album “…But Seriously”
The song was written by Collins and produced by Collins and Hugh Padgham.
Peaked at #2 on the U.S. Hot 100 Airplay and #4 on the U.S
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Phil Collins – Heat on the Street
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Basically the song depicts people behavior during people uprisings, and Phil seems to encourage it.
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