This document provides lyrics and scene descriptions for the music video of the song "For King and Country" by the band Red, Stock and Blue. The lyrics tell the story of a soldier reflecting on fighting in war and losing friends. The scenes shown in the music video include the soldier saying goodbye to loved ones before leaving for war, fighting in trenches overseas, suffering from PTSD after returning home, and attending a Remembrance Day ceremony.

1. JAMIE THORN & THE MYSTERY PACIFIC
– FOR KING AND COUNTRY LYRICS
Red - Stock
Blue - Band
Green – Narrative
Misc
TIME LYRICS ON SCREEN
MARKS
INTRO Instrumental BLACKSCREEN
0:10 FADE IN
10 seconds These were our sons who died for our
lands engraved in stone plays.
VERSE #1 The camera begins from the left
i think upon those friends of moving to right with a PANNING
0:11-0:55
40 seconds mine and memories they say shot of the whole band
performing at a MID LEVEL
how brave our step behind the angle.
band upon a summer's day LOW ANGLE behind the front
man then cutaway to
oh i did not go alone my friends i MEDIUM CLOSE UP of front
man’s face, singing.
did not go alone
my friends and i wave goodbye Aged footage plays of a ship
leaving the harbor with the
as our ship left England home soldiers being waved goodbye by
the people left behind on land.
oh we joked and laughed upon
A mother clutching her children
the words, what would our all-crying together.
mothers say Girl in the green dress crying,
unwed again in sweethearts wiping her eyes with a
handkerchief as soldiers
arms by Christmas we were dead
Build up to As the CHORUS builds:
chorus
0:56/7-1.16 LOW LEVEL of foot tapping bass drum
20 seconds LONG SHOT from the band from behind
LEFT SIDE PROFILE of the band playing
LONG SHOT of the band from the front
CHORUS MEDIUM LONG SHOT of the bass
1:17-1.46 guitarist playing
27 seconds MID LEVEL CLOSE UP shot of fingers
strumming a guitar then CUTAWAY to
______________________________
(CHORUS)
a MEDIUM LONG SHOT of front

2. man singing first line,
MEDIUM LONG SHOT of entire
band directly from the front,
MID LEVEL CLOSE UP of hand
they say i fight, for king and playing guitar, cutaway to
country similar shots of each instrument
being played by each band
they say it's my, duty to which i member
CUT to CLOSE UP of face singing,
must uphold CUT to EXTREME CLOSE UP of
when she's in need, when she's mouth singing then ZOOM OUT
as chorus ends on ‘oh’
in danger
your country calls out to you,
you are a saviour
oh
1:47 – 1:57 LONG SHOT Cut to the man
our laughter draws down the line standing in front of his mirror
10 seconds
VERSE #2 the whisper song, the long looking nervous, CLOSE UP of
1:57 – 2.20 him doing buttons and suiting up
drawn whine in his military uniform
23 seconds
there were no cheering crowds
HIGH ANGLE see him leaving
the giggling eyes house from window,
there was no marching band LOW LEVEL stepping onto the
cackling guns against boys so street and crushing a flower
pushing up from the crack in the
fine concrete, growing where it’s not
supposed to.
no summer bloom marked
friends of mine Autumn leaves pass him on the
pavement below, being swept
over the top the sergeant cries away by the wind.
and into no man’s land
Cut to Afghanistan footage, a
military airplane travels the sky.
A lone soldier aims his gun and
fires, then cut to men crawling
over the trenches, sand flying
into the air everywhere.
2:21 – 2:24 HIGH ANGLE of the man
oh my dear friends amidst the
music holding an old school
VERSE #3 trench i see you all graduation photo, CLOSE UP
2.25 – 2:52 of his face MATCHED cut to
my pale schoolyard chums away
31 seconds POV shot down at the photo,
lost country’s call with his thumb tracing the

3. names and cut to names-
and in this brief moment of
silence thoughts of hope make Lines from the stone
inscriptions in the memorial
me cower
(Stockwell) appear on screen,
as i set foot on England's fields PANNING from left to right.
Then names come scrolling
and guns in each arm
down one after the other with
the camera TILTing down.
MEDIUM LONG SHOT in the
centre of the front , showing
band playing.
Cutaway to MEDIUM CLOSE
UP of front man singing last
line.
CHORUS 2 There’s a LOUD NOISE; JUMP
did we fight, for king and
2:53 – 3:18 cut as the man jumps
25 seconds country suddenly, a wild look in his
eyes. LOW ANGLE from the
no, said i, we fought for thoughts
middle showing the band play
of returning home
and men who need me, for all Camera focus on side profile,
MEDIUM LONG SHOT from
our loved ones the nose down so we can see
welcome home, a hero, for all i he’s breathing heavy. Band
member CLOSE UP hand
have done playing instrument
MEDIUM LONG SHOT side
profile the front man singing –
TILT camera up: it was an
innocuous noise but it’s war in
his ears all over again CUT-
CUT direct front shot of the
entire band playing-
360 degree shot of man in the
middle of an empty-ish room,
rocking backward and
forwards. Wife comes in and
puts her arms round him,
quick cuts between man alone

4. and wife comforting him as
the camera circles round.
3:19 – 3:42 Flicker back and forth between quick
they say x 6, oh they say x2
they say clips of
23 seconds did they die, for king and a) Bush speaking
VERSE #4 b) Band playing
country?
3:43 - 4:05 c) Churchill speaking
46 seconds was it right, that they should die d) Band playing
e) Bush
so far from home
f) Band
they'll never greet you, in g) Churchill
h) Band
adoration or shake your hand
i) Protests
down familiar streets, in glory ________
green and pleasant land
The room is dark, MEDIUM LONG
SHOT he’s in bed at home and he’s
having night terrors again.
CUTAWAY shot of him
VERSE #5 As the song slows, a clock face
how wrong we were to think it
4:06 – 4:36 dominates the screen coming into
38 seconds fun focus and the second hand is slowly
4.37 – 4: 44 ticking to 11 am – referencing
great foreign fields against the x
End music Remembrance Day when we have a
7 seconds forced to dig the darkening mire minute of silence. See him close his
eyes in remembrance of what he
pray for us all in our plight
knows and feels.
i close my eyes, i see my friends
The song comes to an end. LONG
along the line many fine young
SHOT and simply hold the shot: the
men band all look down at the ground in
silence, lowering their instruments
lying still in x x grace
with solemn faces and everything lies
their lifeless eyes, their mouths still.
agape
FADE OUT
i feel alone at the wars end BLACKSCREEN
i wish i died among my friends