 Some of the songs from the album emerged from Collins ' improvisations with a drum machine , including the singles " One More Night " and " Sussudio " . Collins started singing " one more night " to an attempt of making a beat similar to The Jacksons , and improvised " sus @-@ sussudio " in another . Collins tried to replace the lyric with another phrase but decided to keep that way , leading to lyrics about a schoolboy crush on a girl at his school . Another song created mostly through improvisation , " Don 't Lose My Number " , was described by Collins as having been written mostly during the recordings for his first solo album , Face Value . Collins added that he does not fully understand the meaning of the lyrics , described by reviewer Stephen Holden of The New York Times as " vague , sketching the outlines of a melodrama but withholding the full story . " 
