[Intro]
Pour one down for the names we never knew
For the bones in the dark and the brave who came through

[Verse]
We found them asleep by a river of ash
With swords in their hands and old coins in a sash
Their banners were faded, their faces were gone
But someone had carved little songs into stone

[Pre-Chorus]
The bard read the words with a tremble of breath
The dwarf bowed his head to the company of death
The paladin poured from a travel-worn flask

[Chorus]
Ale for the dead, a song for the gone
A fire for the road they could not carry on
Raise up the cup, let the old sorrow pass
Tonight we remember, tomorrow we clash
Ale for the dead, let the lost hear our cry
No hero is nameless beneath the same sky

[Verse]
The mage lit a star on each weathered grave
The thief left a coin for the bold and the brave
No priest stood among us, no bell in the gloom
So we gave them our voices to open the tomb

[Pre-Chorus]
The wind took the chorus and lifted it high
Like souls made of sparks finding holes in the sky
And far in the darkness a war horn replied

[Chorus]
Ale for the dead, a song for the gone
A fire for the road they could not carry on
Raise up the cup, let the old sorrow pass
Tonight we remember, tomorrow we clash
Ale for the dead, let the lost hear our cry
No hero is nameless beneath the same sky

[Bridge]
One day the road may remember our tread
One day a stranger may drink to our dead
If courage is borrowed from those who have lain
Then we carry them onward through thunder and rain

[Chorus]
Ale for the dead, a song for the gone
A fire for the road they could not carry on
Raise up the cup, let the old sorrow pass
Tonight we remember, tomorrow we clash
Ale for the dead, let the lost hear our cry
No hero is nameless beneath the same sky

[Outro]
Pour one down for the names we never knew
We walk with the fallen, and they walk too
