Well first let me say this song has a great feel. You know it's the last song on the album, even before the album came out. It just has an incredible sense of finality that there is no other place the song could fit on the album.
But this is the end of someone's life. The videotape is symbolic; it's the mind, the memory.
"This is my way of saying goodbye
Because I can't do it face to face
I'm talking to you after it's too late
From my videotape"
He's remembering someone, thinking about them, seing a memory of them in his mind (or videotape). He is thinking about a certain individual throughout the whole song, possibly a lover.
"No matter what happens now
I won't be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen."
Thinking of this individual obviously calmed him, rid him of fear. "...the most perfect day I've ever SEEN." He didn't live this day, he thought about it, saw it on his "videotape."
Well first let me say this song has a great feel. You know it's the last song on the album, even before the album came out. It just has an incredible sense of finality that there is no other place the song could fit on the album.
But this is the end of someone's life. The videotape is symbolic; it's the mind, the memory.
"This is my way of saying goodbye Because I can't do it face to face I'm talking to you after it's too late From my videotape"
He's remembering someone, thinking about them, seing a memory of them in his mind (or videotape). He is thinking about a certain individual throughout the whole song, possibly a lover.
"No matter what happens now I won't be afraid Because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen."
Thinking of this individual obviously calmed him, rid him of fear. "...the most perfect day I've ever SEEN." He didn't live this day, he thought about it, saw it on his "videotape."