2002
More is Required
Composed by 
Jake Heggie
Jake Heggie Text by 
Sister Helen Prejean
Sister Helen Prejean The Deepest Desire Song Collection
"More is Required" is the first song of Jake Heggie's song cycle The Deepest Desire: Four meditations on Love. This song cycle sets the text of Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ.
Text
More is Required
by Sister Helen Prejean
More is required than being swept along–
All the currents pulling me
Easy and wide in a long, slow drift–
Without rudder, floating backwards, now to the side.
What can one person do against a sucking tide?
I coil like a bow;
I gather like a fist;
I forge like a rudder
And I lean into the wide, slow drift.
I tack and veer by God’s pure will.
I raise my voice against the silence.
My voice alone. Until a chorus joins.
Records
2006
The Deepest Desire
Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Jake Heggie
Sheet Music
The Deepest Desire
Jake Heggie
1. More is Required
2. Love
3. I Catch on Fire
4. The Deepest Desire
5. Primary Colors
2. Love
3. I Catch on Fire
4. The Deepest Desire
5. Primary Colors