The Offering Ground

[Verse 1]

I stand before the fire

My hands are open wide

Take the weight from off your shoulders

Let it rest on mine tonight

No bargain and no payment

No reason I can name

Just a pulse that keeps repeating

Your name your name your name

[Pre-Chorus]

And when the smoke has cleared

And when the ash has grown

You will be the one still standing

I will be the stone

[Chorus]

Burn me down

Burn me down

I am the offering I am the ground

Burn me down

Burn me down

Take my breath and keep the sound

[Post-Chorus]

(Fall on me)

(Fall on me)

[Verse 2]

They ask me why I do it

I have no clever line

Something older than a language

Buries steel inside my spine

So drag the blade across me

Divide me from the light

I was built to be the border

Between you and the night

[Pre-Chorus]

And when the smoke has cleared

And when the ash has grown

You will be the one still standing

I will be the stone

[Chorus]

Burn me down

Burn me down

I am the offering I am the ground

Burn me down

Burn me down

Take my breath and keep the sound

[Bridge]

I give I give I give it all away

I break I break I break so you can stay

I fall I fall I fall into the flame

Remember me by any other name

[Chorus]

Burn me down

Burn me down

I am the offering I am the ground

Burn me down

Burn me down

Take my breath and keep the sound

[Post-Chorus]

(Fall on me)

(Fall on me)