Biography:
Downhere is a Juno Award-winning Christian rock band from Canada. They have released six major studio albums to date: downhere (2001), So Much for Substitutes (2003), Wide-Eyed and Mystified (2006), Ending Is Beginning (2008), How Many Kings: Songs for Christmas (2009), and On the Altar of Love (2011).
The band was formed by Marc Martel and Jason Germain who were roommates at Briercrest Bible College in Caronport, Saskatchewan. Martel and Germain added fellow Canadians Jeremy Thiessen and Tyson Manning
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Other songs:
- Here I Am
- How Many Kings
- 1000 Miles Apart
- Bring A Torch Jeanette Isabella
- Calmer Of The Storm
- Cathedral Made Of People
- Coming Back Home
- For Life
- Glory By The Way Of Shame
- Great Are You
- Holy
- Larger Than Life
- Let Me Rediscover You
- Little Is Much
- More
- My Last Amen
- Not About Wings
- Remember Me
- Rock Stars Need Money
- Something Heavenly
- Stir
- The Altar Of Love
- The More
- The Problem
- Unbelievable
- What Its Like
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"The Altar of Love"
Downhere
Album: The Altar of Love
Starts on F#m- hold until the first 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.
Downhere
Album: The Altar of Love
Starts on F#m- hold until the first 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.
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