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