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