Lay Down the Load

Lay down the load, lay down the load

You've gotta learn how to be alone now

What you've always wanted and always feared

Lay down the load, lay it all down

Why you carrying dead weight around?

How you gonna know real love when it happens near?

When it happens here in your heart

Where you've made a home

Just by showing up

You give you heart to these walls

You don't need to give it out

You can build your own

You can build your own

Lay down the load, lay down the load

Love is a gift to those who know, now

Not to take every drink that comes to hand

Lay down the load, lay it at your feet

Watch all that soil turn to heat

You've been a student for so long, it's time to take your seat

See what comes to you

Feel what you want to do

Think what you ought to do

The answer could be nothing

Suddenly there is everything right there at your feet

All that heat

All that soil and moss and peat

Consider that ground

Build your life on that ground

But first

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down

Lay down the load, lay down the load

You've gotta learn how to be alone now

What you've always wanted and always feared

Lay down the load, lay it all down

Why you carrying dead weight around?

How you gonna know real love when it happens near?

Lay down the load, lay down the load

Love is a gift to those who know, now

Not to take every drink that comes to hand

Lay down the load, lay it at your feet

Watch all that soil turn to heat

You've been a student for so long, it's time to take your seat

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down, lay it all down

Lay it all down