 " More Fool Me " is the second of two songs ( the other being " For Absent Friends " from Nursery Cryme ) to feature Collins on lead vocals before he became the band 's lead singer in 1975 . Uncharacteristically for the group 's output at the time , the song was a tender , romantic ballad . It was written quickly by Collins and Rutherford while sitting on the steps outside the recording studio . 
