Our Tears, Falling Down Like Rain was written for the final Hymn Festival of the 2018 Conference of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. It’s a Kyrie eleison (Lord/God, have mercy), a classic penitential text in the Christian tradition, rooted in a verse from Psalm 126.

The piece can be accompanied two ways: simply by a shruti box or drone, or a piano/keyboard can realize the printed chords to offer a flowing, gentle accompaniment. You can hear a recording here.