The music video for "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" was directed by Jim Yukich, produced by Paul Flattery, and written by both of them for FYI. A dog is seen napping in a meadow, dreaming of being in a silent film in which it saves a woman tied to a set of railway tracks from being run over by a train. The opening of the song is heard faintly in the distance, coming from the open back door of a concert hall, prompting the dog to wake up and venture inside. Here, Collins and his band are conducting a sound check before performing the song as the dog explores the facility—eating from the band's buffet table, climbing among the catwalks, and sitting briefly at Collins' piano and drum kit. These sequences are intercut with shots from the dog's black-and-white perspective, including a brief dream in which it sits at a formal table laden with food. At two different moments, the dog relieves itself on stage—first by defecating near backing singer
Arnold McCuller, which is only discovered when he steps in the resulting mess, and later by urinating on bassist
Leland Sklar's leg. The latter occurs near the end of the song, and the video concludes after Collins smiles and wipes Sklar's shoe with a towel (Sklar did not perform on the actual studio recording;
Nathan East is the actual performer). ==Track listings==