While the previous two singles from the album, "Jump They Say" and "Black Tie White Noise", covered issues such as mental illness and legal injustice, "Miracle Goodnight" features a more unabashed recurring theme of the album - Bowie's love for his new bride, Iman Abdulmajid. He declared the whole album "a wedding present" for Iman.
The video features Bowie unmoved by a harem of beautiful women while singing the song to camera, as well as scenes of him in a jester's outfit, playing with mirrors, dressed as a mime, and even returning briefly to his fashion style as the Thin White Duke from 1976.
The video features David Bowie dressed as a mime, which he trained as during his 20s in the 1960s.