Matt Maher - Lay It Down Lyrics

Lay It Down is a short worship song about surrender. Its opening lines, "Everything I am" and "Everything I long to be," are offered at the feet of God, and the phrase "I lay it down" is repeated until the act of giving up control becomes the central picture. The song names both present identity and future ambition, so the surrender covers who the singer is and who the singer hopes to become.

The final section calls Christ the pearl of greatest price, a reference to the parable in Matthew 13 of a merchant who sold everything to own one valuable pearl. It adds that no act of sacrifice can match the gift of life found in God's gaze, and it describes a sweet exchange in which the singer dies in order to rise again, lifted from the grave into hands of grace.

That language of dying and rising connects to Paul's teaching about being crucified with Christ and raised to new life. The connection is an interpretation drawn from the wording.