[Intro]
Do you thirst, brave traveler
Do you mourn what slipped away
Take a cup beneath the leaves
And drink yesterday

[Verse]
The trees were bent like tavern beams
Their leaves were green with sleeping dreams
And from each branch a silver cup
Swung low and tried to call them up

[Pre-Chorus]
One held glory
One held rest
One held love
Against the chest

[Chorus]
In The Forest of Whispering Cups
Every broken longing fills up
Drink and lose the road ahead
Sleep among the gentle dead
In The Forest of Whispering Cups
Every sorrow rises up
But the sweetest wine can bend
Any heart from World’s End

[Verse]
The paladin heard his comrades sing
The bard saw home in a wedding ring
The dwarf saw halls of gold restored
The mage saw peace she had never known

[Pre-Chorus]
The thief saw hands
He failed to save
And almost knelt
Beside a grave

[Chorus]
In The Forest of Whispering Cups
Every broken longing fills up
Drink and lose the road ahead
Sleep among the gentle dead
In The Forest of Whispering Cups
Every sorrow rises up
But the sweetest wine can bend
Any heart from World’s End

[Instrumental]
Flute like mist and fiddle thin
Mandolin beneath the skin
Drums like hearts that hesitate
Guitars growl under tempting fate

[Bridge]
The bard broke first with a bitter laugh
And smashed her cup on the moonlit path
She sang so sharp that the branches shook
And memory fled from the shadowed brook

[Breakdown]
Do not drink
Do not stay
Dreams have teeth
And songs can slay

[Build-up]
They raised their voices
One by one
Until the false old dawn was done

[Chorus]
In The Forest of Whispering Cups
Every broken longing fills up
Drink and lose the road ahead
Sleep among the gentle dead
In The Forest of Whispering Cups
Every sorrow rises up
But the sweetest wine can bend
Any heart from World’s End

[Chorus]
In The Forest of Whispering Cups
We will not be swallowed up
Keep the grief and keep the scar
They remind us who we are
In The Forest of Whispering Cups
Let the lying branches rust
No false comfort, no false friend
Turns us back from World’s End

[Outro]
Do you thirst, brave traveler
Do you mourn what slipped away
Leave the cups beneath the leaves
And walk beyond yesterday