When Death Does Come

To My Friends and Fellow Students of the Urantia Book

When Death Does Come

Words and Music by Jerry Gerber

When death does come
As it surely will,
I hope my heart is filled
With light and love,
And my senses calm and still

This mystery of being
Cannot be denied,
My body will surrender
To stardust far and wide,
And my soul to the God inside.

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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