Verse
Verse 1:
Bm D
Lay down your weapons
F#m
Lay down your violence
Bm D
Lay down rebellion
F#m
Your heart of defiance
Chorus 1:
E Bm F#m
Love will ask of you more than truces
E Bm F#m
If you're willing to lose
E Bm F#m E
Blessing far outweighs the loss when you lay it all
Bm F#m
On the Altar of Love
Verse 2:
Bm D
Lay down your idols
F#m
Lay down your possessions
Bm D
Lay down your shrines and
F#m
Your worldly obsessions
Chorus 2:
E Bm F#m
Love will ask of you more than treasure
E Bm F#m
When you're willing to trust
E Bm F#m E Bm
Blessing far outweighs the loss when you lay it all
E Bm D
You lay it all on the Altar of Love
Bridge:
D F#m
In the holiest room
A
Where the curtain was torn
E
By the ultimate wound
Bm
Oh, the Altar of Love
F#m
Where the glory resides
A
Where the Father and Son
E
And the Spirit invites
E D
Oh, the Altar of Love
F#m
To its form we are blind
A
But you know when it's there
E
Like the sun through shut eyes
Bm
Oh, the Altar of Love
F#m
Yes, you come here to die
A
But you know that it's good
E
'Cause you come out alive
Bm D
You come out alive
Bm D
Oh, oh, oh la da da
Instrumental:
Strummed and played just like the Choruses
E Bm F#m x3 then E Bm
Outro:
E Bm F#m
Love will ask of you more than you can give
E Bm F#m
When you're willing to live
E Bm F#m E Bm
Blessing far outweighs the loss when you lay it all
E Bm
You lay it all
E Bm
You lay it all
F#m
On the Altar of Love
F#m is played for the rest of the song.