Does anyone know what the inspiration for this song was? Allmusic.com says it was written by Tony Banks, Phil Collins, and Mike Rutherford. I don't know who wrote the actual lyrics though.

If I remember correctly, they were just playing a riff and Phil started singing that line out of nowhere, and the rest of the lyrics were created from nothing after that line. I saw an interview about this somewhere a few years back.

Cool, thanks for the explanation.