 " The Cinema Show " is divided into two sections . The first section is a 12 @-@ string guitar @-@ based piece , featuring vocal harmonies between Gabriel and Collins , as well as a short flute / oboe solo . The song concludes with a four @-@ and @-@ a @-@ half @-@ minute keyboard solo on the ARP Pro Soloist , with Rutherford and Collins playing a rhythm in a 7 / 8 time signature . The lyrics , written by Banks and Rutherford , draw much of their inspiration from the T. S. Eliot poem The Waste Land . 
