It's always Worse At Night

To My Friends and Fellow Students of the Urantia Book

It's Always Worse At Night

Words and Music by Jerry Gerber

It's always worse at night
when fears of loss harass my soul
Though daylight brings renewal and hope
at night the demons roll

The path I chose to conscious life
is often hard to see
delusion and anxiety
can sabotage the best in me (Help me God)

This world is unmindful of the soul
trauma and much drama dim the light
though I am no stranger to uncertainty
it's always worse at night

Technical Information:

This piece was composed and sequenced into a computer (A DAW, or digital audio workstation)

and the choir is from a "sample library", which is essentially many thousands of recordings

of professional singers singing various syllables, vowels, consonances, siblances and plosives.

The composer chooses which samples will sing which words by typing text into a "word builder", which uses its own

programming language to arrive at a reasonably close approximation of how human singers

would pronounce the words. As you probably are aware, when a live choir is singing in a reverberant hall or church,

it's often difficult to understand the text unless program notes with the printed words are available.

In some ways, this recording is not much different, which is why I included the words above.

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