Phil Collins said, in an interview:

“It’s about Northern Ireland as far as I am concerned. Which in England we are used to it all the time, I mean Ireland of course, it’s on the doorstep but everywhere else in the world it’s… just another news report, but if you are living in England and you just sort of constantly hear of people getting blown to smithereens because this thing that’s been going on for the last twenty—but also for a lot longer in Ireland, it’s only just come to the front in the last twenty years. You see newsreels of kids throwing petrol bombs because their brothers throw them and then their dads throw them and their dad’s dad and it’s just bred, inbred, now this violence and I just thought someone somewhere, and it’s got to be from both sides, has got to say ‘Hang on, life means more than this. This has got to stop.’”