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If Adam Never Fell

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Verse 1
The story of our fall
Banished from the Father’s face (Gen. 3:22-24)
East of Eden, far from grace (Gen. 4:16)
A story we would never tell
If Adam never fell (Gen. 3:6)
We would never know the emptiness of life without the Lord
We would never know the sweetness when communion is restored (II Cor. 5:18-19, Col. 1:20)
If Adam never fell

Verse 2
The story of our sin
For which we should have hung and bled (Rom. 6:23)
Jesus nailed it to His Cross instead (Col. 2:14)
A story we would never tell
If Adam never fell (Rom. 5:12)
We would never know the burden of a debt we could not pay (Matt. 18:23-27)
We would never know the freedom when those sins are washed away (Acts 22:16, I John 1:7, Rev. 1:5, Ps. 51:2)
If Adam never fell

Verse 3
The story of our death
We are dust, our days are few (Ps. 103:14, Gen. 3:19, Job 34:15, Ps. 90:10, Job 14:1-2)
Till soul and body split in two (Ecc. 12:7)
A story we would never tell
If Adam never fell
We would never have to leave our earthly bodies to the clay (Job 10:9)
We would never get immortal ones on Resurrection Day (I Cor. 15:53-54, I Cor. 15:42-44, Phil. 3:20-21)
If Adam never fell (I Cor. 15:21)

Release Information

Released on Somewhere East of Eden (CD/streaming, 2020).

Author & Composer

Words and Music by Daniel J. Mount

Publishing Information

Completed on March 4, 2017.
© 2017 Tomorrow’s Hymns/BMI. If you have any interest in or questions about using this song, please contact daniel@danielmount.com.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

This song is also released for free non-commercial use under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Here’s a little more about what that means.

Sheet Music

Lead Sheet

Song Story

 

What would life be like if Adam and Eve had never sinned?

 

Usually, if we consider this question, we think about the bad things sin brought. And that is indeed the main way we should approach this question.

 

I’d known for a few years that I wanted to write a song titled “If Adam Never Fell.” It never came together like I wanted until, one day, I realized something:

 

There is a sweetness when we, a sinner newly saved by grace, come into communion with our Maker for the first time. If Adam never fell, we would be born into communion with God; but we would never know what it is like for communion to be restored.

 

There is an awe when our sins are washed away and we behold ourselves as a new creation in Christ. If Adam never fell, we would never have sinned in the first place; but we would also never experience our sins being washed away as we become a new creation.

 

And how amazing will it be to experience resurrection? Of course, if Adam never fell, we would never know death. But because he fell, and because the second Adam redeems us, we will someday know resurrection.

 

A few songwriting notes: This was one of the last songs I wrote for the Somewhere East of Eden album. So I made it a sort of summary song. Each of the three verses references one of the other songs on the album, more or less by name. “East of Eden, far from grace.” “Jesus nailed it to His cross instead.” “We are dust, our days are few.” I hope this helps show that the album as a whole tells a bigger story; it’s not just a collection of random songs on a similar theme.

 

Ben Garms, who produced this track, came up with a banjo/mandolin duet that is one of my favorite musical moments on any track I’ve put out. Its hauntingly evocative beauty is perfect for this lyric!