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Older Than The Rain
Michael Card

In Eden the darkening garden was still

Unwet by all the tears from the sky.

The burden of that disobedient bite

Brought all the tears the fallen world would cry.

The unwelcome tears that they never had known

Coursed down their fallen faces in surprise.

All they ever had seen was the light of His face

But now the sin had entered in

Their tears would fall like rain.


Falling tears from fallen eyes

Our faces with an unaccustomed stain

We were driven from the garden

Beneath a cloudless sky

For human tears are older than the rain

Human tears are older than the rain


And so we all were driven from His presence and His peace

To stumble all along this long-lamenting race.

From the deepest, darkest shadows, He joins us on our way

And we recognize our fallen tears upon that human face.


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