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.