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hello.

[David:] yeah, is there?

uh...this is he.

[David:] is David Crowder calling for the interview that was scheduled today?

[Andy:] oh. Yeah. Great. Um sorry...I expect you so soon.
Let me...give me a to get things set up here.

no problem.

[Andy:] yeah. Made a few changes here
and my typical is kinda, you know, technology's a killer right?

[David:] uh...well...we'll have to and see I guess.

well. Alright. Well. Umm. Well. Hey, let's get started.
Uh...sorry my notes are...you know a little here...
uh...you'll to forgive me.

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta admit I...I really know much about...
you know...you... You...or the band...
but got some friends that are big fans and um...

right.

[Andy:] but...uh...anyway...um...alright. Well. Ok. So we go.
Um...so new CD is titled a collision, or...um...3 + 4 = 7 that's..
that's interesting. You the...the...

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole double thing.

yeah.

[Andy:] uhmm lets see...uh...and the atom on the cover pretty

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was all that great in science and.
And wasn't really my...my specialty...which is...which is I guess,
you know, why I'm a now. But uh...

mmhmm.

...anyway um...

ok.

[Andy:] ok. So uh...it...I know...is that...it's like with the cover...
is that a or...uh...I mean is it metaphorical for something or like, or is it...

well...

[Andy:] ...just or...

[David:] ...nah. I mean. Yeah.
The...uh...atom, not really...I mean it's a symbol.
You see and you think atom.
It electrons moving in elliptical paths around a nucleus and all...we know...

mmhmm.

[David:] ...that's...that's not how an atom works. Or...or looks even, for matter...

ok.

[David:] ...and so....and so that's why it was for the cover, you know...

[Andy:] right. Uhmm. Ok. Yeah. I'm not sure I see the connection. But...

...well...and what we mean to say is that the elements of worship are inadequate,
much like the depiction. But this is what we have you know?
It helps us the idea.

mmhmm. Mmhmm. Uhmm. Ok. Uh.
Tell...ok...what's the deal with little songs between the real...you know, the real songs?
Like are they significant? Uhmm...is there like a theme of the
Or are they creating space? Like what's...going on

uhmm. I don't...

[Andy:] ok. Uhmm. So you I hear there's this really spectacular ending to...
to the record is true?

we'll have to wait and see on that.

swell.

[David:] it swell.

[Andy:] wait...uh it...wait...hold on...it well?

no. It swells.

oh. Right. It swells. Uhmm. Ok. Well.
And so the end starts with this...this piece "the lark ascending."
Uhmm now is...what is the lark?
Is that...is that a metaphor for something?

[David:] uhmm. I gue...I mean I guess. I just...I think...
I don't think you should read too much any of this you know
It's...I mean the lark was written...
it was a piece written by Vaughn who died in 1958,
and uh, the work opens this calm set of sustained chords and then (coughs) sorry.
me. And uhmm.
Anyway and so the violin enters as the lark and it...
it starts with this series of ascending and intervals and this...
these then elongated arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found inspiration in a work by the English poet Meredith
who died in 1909 and the included a portion of Meredith's poem on the flyleaf...

wait uh...

[David:] ...of the work

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

[Andy:] ...why do you mentioning...

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the year died?

[David:] ...well it went...and it went this it says uh...

"He rises and to round,

He the silver chain of sound,

Of many without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For singing till his fills,

'Tis of earth that he instills,

And winging up and up,

Our is his golden cup

And he the which overflows

To lift us him as he goes.

Till on his aerial rings

In light, and then the sings."

huh. Wow. That's nice. But I mean...but who is the lark?

[David:] I know.

[Andy:] sorry. I think i've got the page. Uhmm.
The you gave me says something different. It says, "you are."

yeah but I don't...
I don't like the lark much of the time and uhmm there are other larks for me you know?

[Andy:] a second. Ok. So correct me if I'm wrong but uhmm...

yeah.

[Andy:] ...in the I have you're...

right.

[Andy:] ...making a point that art this...

right.

[Andy:] ...you know the whole, it on wing from earth to fill the heavens...

yes.

[Andy:] ...pulling the rest of us with it. That as the rises so do we."

right. I'm unsure.

[Andy:] but. Uh. Hold on. I mean...it...it so right here.

[David:] yeah. Uhmm. But the ground at my feet.

[Andy:] hold...hold on just a second. Uh but I mean what the number 7?

[David:] did you ever notice the sky is all the way to the ground?

[Andy:] wait. Hold on.

[David:] we're around in it. We're in the sky.
There is sky and there is ground and we're in between.
That is we live.
And sometimes some of us wing and when they do,
when their leave the ground, even for a second,
they pull the rest of us them.
And when we rise, and we rise,
and when we that the sky has been around us all along.
We have been walking into it. It has been this collision.
and depravity.
And we and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise
and we and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise
and we rise and we rise and we and we rise...