[Intro]
Pour it dark, pour it slow
For the one who walks alone
Let the embers softly glow
For a heart turned into stone

[Verse]
He laid his sword beside the fire
With rust upon the blade
His holy crest was split in two
His silver vow had frayed
He said he saw the banners fall
He heard the chapel bell
And every prayer he ever swore
Was buried where they fell

[Pre-Chorus]
The bard grew still
The dwarf looked down
The mage held back her light
And all the room leaned close to hear
The grief beneath the knight

[Chorus]
Ale for the Fallen Knight
Drink away the ash and fight
Raise a cup for those who died
Raise another for the light
Ale for the Fallen Knight
Lost beneath a blood-red sky
Even broken oaths can rise
When the dawn returns to white

[Verse]
He spoke of gates he could not hold
Of children in the flame
Of comrades calling through the smoke
And each one knew his name
He ran when all the saints were blind
He lived when heroes bled
And every mile since that black day
He marched among the dead

[Pre-Chorus]
But in his eyes
A coal remained
Too stubborn to depart
The tavern heard the old vow wake
Inside his wounded heart

[Chorus]
Ale for the Fallen Knight
Drink away the ash and fight
Raise a cup for those who died
Raise another for the light
Ale for the Fallen Knight
Lost beneath a blood-red sky
Even broken oaths can rise
When the dawn returns to white

[Instrumental]
Low fiddle, slow drum, mandolin
A distant choir begins within
Guitar like thunder under rain
The oath is wounded, not yet slain

[Bridge]
No man is only what he lost
No blade is only rust
No road is closed forever
If the soul remembers trust

[Breakdown]
He gripped the cup
He bowed his head
He whispered to the flame
I failed the living
Failed the dead
But I still know my name

[Build-up]
Then all the strangers struck the board
With fists and cups as one
A fallen knight may fall no more
Before the night is done

[Chorus]
Ale for the Fallen Knight
Drink away the ash and fight
Raise a cup for those who died
Raise another for the light
Ale for the Fallen Knight
Lost beneath a blood-red sky
Even broken oaths can rise
When the dawn returns to white

[Chorus]
Ale for the Fallen Knight
Let the fire crown the night
If the darkness calls again
He will answer, he will stand
Ale for the Fallen Knight
Broken steel can still burn bright
Every oath that seems to die
May be forged beneath the light

[Outro]
Pour it dark, pour it slow
For the one who walks alone
By the fire he starts to know
He is not yet carved in stone