Jamie Thorn & The Mystery Pacific perform a song about a soldier's experience in World War I. The song tells the story of soldiers joking as they leave for war, fighting for their country, seeing their friends die in battle, and struggling with trauma after returning home. The performance features stock footage from the war intercut with shots of the band playing intensely. During the chorus, close-ups show the raw emotion on their faces as they sing about the soldier's sacrifice.

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

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

3. cut to POV shot down at
my pale schoolyard chums away
the photo, with his
lost country’s call thumb tracing the names
and cut to names-
and in this brief moment of
silence thoughts of hope make Lines from the stone
inscriptions in the
me cower
memorial (Stockwell)
as i set foot on England's fields appear on screen,
PANNING from left to
and guns in each arm
right. Then names come
scrolling down one after
the other with the
camera TILTing down.
CHORUS 2 There’s a LOUD NOISE;
did we fight, for king and
2:53 – 3:18 JUMP cut as the man
25 seconds country jumps suddenly, a wild
look in his eyes. LOW
no, said i, we fought for thoughts
ANGLE from the middle
of returning home showing the band play
Camera focus on side
and men who need me, for all
profile, MEDIUM LONG
our loved ones SHOT from the nose
down so we can see he’s
welcome home, a hero, for all i
breathing heavy.
have done Band member CLOSE UP
hand 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-
-EXTREME CLOSE UP of
frightened eyes shutting,
MEDIUM CLOSE UP as he
covers his ears, and
begins rocking back and
forth looking distressed
as the camera CIRCLES
all around him 360
degree angle fades, black
screen flicker and-

4. VERSE #4 Band
they say x 6, oh they say x2
3:19 – 4:05 The room is dark,
46 seconds did they die, for king and MEDIUM LONG SHOT
he’s in bed at home and
country?
he’s having night terrors
was it right, that they should die again.
so far from home
they'll never greet you, in
adoration or shake your hand
down familiar streets, in glory
green and pleasant land
VERSE #5 As the song slows, a clock
how wrong we were to think it
4:06 – 4:44 face dominates the
38 seconds fun screen coming into focus
and the second hand is
great foreign fields against the x
slowly ticking to 11 am –
forced to dig the darkening mire referencing
Remembrance Day when
pray for us all in our plight
we have a minute of
i close my eyes, i see my friends silence.
along the line many fine young
The song comes to an
men end. LONG SHOT and
simply hold the shot: the
lying still in x x grace
band all look down at the
their lifeless eyes, their mouths ground in silence,
lowering their
agape
instruments with solemn
i feel alone at the wars end faces and everything lies
i wish i died among my friends still.
FADE OUT
BLACKSCREEN