1) The song describes different family members in a family experiencing hardship and loss, including an older brother who lies down with his ear to the earth, an older father who will drive home with divorce papers and a lonely ring, and a grandfather who is waiting to die since his wife passed away from cancer. 2) Interwoven with the lyrics are scenes of a girl returning to her old family home, finding old family photos and memories, walking through the countryside and graveyard, and eventually packing up boxes of memories before leaving the house behind. 3) The video portrays a story of familial loss and longing through both the lyrics describing different family members and visual scenes of a girl revisiting her old family

1. The Middle East- Blood (Cover)
0:33
Older brother, restless soul, lie down
Lie for a while with yourear against the earth
0:47
And you’llhear your sister sleep talking
Say, “Yourhair is long but not long enough to reach
Home to me
0:59
But your beard
Someday might be”
1:07
And she woke up in a cold sweat on the floor
1:12
Next to a family portrait drawn when you were four
1:18
And beside a jar of twocent coins that are no good no more
1:26
She’ll lay it aside
1:35
Older father, weary soul, you’ll drive
1:40
Back to the home you made on the mountainside
1:47
With that ugly, terrible thing
1:49
Those papers fordivorce
And a lonely ring
1:56
A lonely ring
1:58
Sit on yourporch
And pluckyour strings
2:05
Oh, and you’llfind somebody youcan blame
2:11
And you’llfollow the creek that runs out into the sea
2:19
And you’llfind the peace of the Lord.
2:33
Grandfather, weary soul, you’ll fly
2:40
Overyour life once more before you die
2:46
Since our grandma passed away
You’vewaited for foreverand a day
2:55
Just to die
2:58
And someday soon
Introduction shows the arrival at
the old family home. Shot of a sign
of the name of the village. Girl gets
out of car and goes to open the
door of the house. She looks
through old mail and begins to
walk around house.
Go to surrounding countryside
with shots of her walking and
flashback to her as a young child
with her parent and then back to
her alone, older. This implies the
absence of her family that she is
singing about.
Then we go to her playing the
guitar in the living room of the
house with candles lit. This is
where the majority of the lip
sync will happen.
Now she goes through the
upstairs of the house and
finds photographs of her and
her family years ago and this
brings another flashback of
her getting the photograph
taken.
Now we see her walking though a
graveyard and laying flowers
before sitting on a bench where the
shot shows her entirely alone.

2. 3:03
Youwill die
3:04
It was the only woman you ever loved
3:10
That got burnt by the sun too oftenwhen she was young
3:17
And the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood
3:24
And there’s nothing youcan do about it now
The final part of the
video shows her
putting old photos and
an old doll of hers in a
box and labelling it
“memories”. She then
takes the box out of the
house and drives away
leaving the key on the
table.