This interpretation is mostly a concept and everything else is left to your
imagination. Of course some quotes from the song were used to illustrate the
point of specific parts of the video. :
The setting of the video is a clearing in a tropical rainforest (during the
day) where remnants of ancient ruins stand. In the middle of the clearing is
a fountain. Jimmy and Melissa are standing beside it and Billy and James are
in front of it. The band begans to play the song. Occassionally a bird or
two flies and lands on the edge of the fountain; one of them lands on
Melissa's arms and flies away (through the song there seemed to be a sound
that sounded like birds chirping). The band is wearing pretty light
clothing. During the choruses, there are tremors and some of the ruins begin
crumbling, some pieces of stone coming crashing down to the ground. At about
2 minutes into the song, the band peer into the fountain and see
themselves. Billy and Jimmy's images turn into a younger images of
themselves. All of them (without their instruments of course) jump into the
fountain and emerge as Billy, D'arcy, James and Jimmy from 1993 and play the
nexy chorus; James than wraps a cape around the group and the whole band
re-emerges as the original foursome in the video. "The drain is
needless" -some of the water out of the fountain slowly begins to drain.When
he Billy sings "someday we we'll wave hello and wish we never waved goodbye"
he waves. Melissa tries to drink from the fountain as it continues to
drain -"we'll drink up every lie". During the last chorus, trees in the
surrounding forest as well as the ruins including the fountain began to come
crashing down -"crashing down, crashing down again". As the song begans to
wind down after the chorus, the band plays together in front of the
crumbling fountain. The video ends with Billy singing "As the curtain falls
as we bid you all goodnight"-he lifts his arm up to the sky as they finish
playing; they bow as a red curtain falls on what is now revealed to be a
stage for a play. The last shot is of the crowd clapping and cheering.
By David Pukin david@2007.org
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