• When I'm at the pearly gates This'll be on my videotape Mephistopheles is just beneath And he's reaching up to grab me This is one for the good days And I have it all here in Red, blue, green You are my centre when I spin away Out of control on videotape This is my way of saying goodbye Because I can't do it fact to face So I'm talking to you before No matter what happens now I won't be afraid Because I know Today has been the most perfect day I have ever seen Not taking tenses in mind, this was a beautiful scene of a dead soul who lived his life unhappy but now could see that things really were beautiful. The echoed moans come in, overlapping. Past moaning in his life, all the needless dread and worry. Also add in the image of the lost souls must like himself coming in behind him from the darkness to take him with them. And as they do, he watches the memories continue to unfold, tears in his eyes--though tears of happiness, now finally appreciating the best times in his life before the lights go out forever. But with tenses in mind, the man is not dead. Not yet. This is an actual videotape. A collection of old memories. Family life. Good times. And he's made his final realization. Same tears of happiness, but he has his final moments ahead of him. Depression cuts deep. Symbolism in an artistic mind can turn frightening. How appropriate he feels that the final clip of this video collage was for him to record his last thoughts. He knew how tomorrow his thoughts would change again and he would lose this purity as it's buried by sleep and unrelated thoughts and more pointless frustrations. A final good-bye and thank-you before he leaves on his high note, knowing that by doing so, it will be the devil's hand that takes him in the end. But how was it ever different in life?

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