[Intro]
Step aside, you solemn men
Let a sharper song begin
If your courage needs a tune
I will sell you one by noon

[Verse]
She jumped on a table with a boot full of mud
A grin like a knife and a voice like blood
She stole three hearts and a noble’s ring
Then tuned her lute with a devilish string

[Pre-Chorus]
She winked at the knight
She bowed to the mage
She stole from the thief
While she danced on the stage

[Chorus]
She is The Bard with the Silver Tongue
Laughing while the bells are rung
Singing truth in a crooked rhyme
Stealing secrets out of time
She is The Bard with the Silver Tongue
Every lie is neatly sung
Raise your cups and guard your gold
She knows more than she has told

[Verse]
She sang of a door under oak and nail
Of a moon that was caught in a dragon’s scale
Of seven keys in a widow’s wall
And a hungry dark beneath us all

[Pre-Chorus]
The candles bent low
The rafters replied
And something below
Tapped three times inside

[Chorus]
She is The Bard with the Silver Tongue
Laughing while the bells are rung
Singing truth in a crooked rhyme
Stealing secrets out of time
She is The Bard with the Silver Tongue
Every lie is neatly sung
Raise your cups and guard your gold
She knows more than she has told

[Instrumental]
Fiddle flies and flute replies
Boot heels thunder, laughter rises
Mandolin sparks like tavern fire
Higher, higher, higher, higher

[Bridge]
A joke can be a dagger
A rhyme can be a key
A song can hide a warning
For fools too blind to see

[Breakdown]
She sang one line
The fire died
She sang one more
The floorboards sighed

[Build-up]
Then louder came the laughing crowd
Too drunk to hear the warning loud
But five strange souls around the flame
Felt fate begin to speak their names

[Chorus]
She is The Bard with the Silver Tongue
Laughing while the bells are rung
Singing truth in a crooked rhyme
Stealing secrets out of time
She is The Bard with the Silver Tongue
Every lie is neatly sung
Raise your cups and guard your gold
She knows more than she has told

[Chorus]
She is The Bard with the Silver Tongue
Bright as blade and wild as rum
When the shadows learn the tune
She will mock the dying moon
She is The Bard with the Silver Tongue
Every ending just begun
Raise your cups and guard your gold
She knows more than she has told

[Outro]
Step aside, you solemn men
Let the sharper song descend
If the tavern sings along
Maybe all the walls are wrong