The serious material was balanced by shorter and lighter songs. "I Can't Dance" was a criticism of models who appeared in jeans adverts then popular at the time, and built around a heavy Rutherford guitar riff. Banks noted his electric piano part was one of the most minimal riffs he has played on record and had thought of a style heard on the 1968 song "Feelin' Alright?" by Traffic. "Jesus He Knows Me" was a barbed parody of the televangelist movement in the US, which the band members had seen while touring the country. "Living Forever" deals with a cynical view of society's obsession with modern diets and lifestyles. Its original working title was "Hip-Hop Brushes" after Collins acquired new drum disks for his E-mu SP-1200 drum machine and devised a hip-hop oriented drum pattern using its brush sound, as he recalled, in around ten minutes which the group then played from and developed the song from it.