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hello.

[David:] yeah, is Andy

uh...this is he.

[David:] this is David Crowder calling for the 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 setup is kinda, you know, technology's a right?

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

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

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta I...I really don't know much about...
you know...you... You...or the band...
but I've got 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 title thing.

yeah.

[Andy:] uhmm lets see...uh...and the on the cover that's pretty

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all great in science and.
And math 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 don't know...is that...it's like 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, it's not really...I it's a symbol.
You see that and you 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 why it was appropriate for the cover, you know...

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

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

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

uhmm. I don't...

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

[David:] we'll have to and see on that.

swell.

[David:] it swell.

wait...uh it...wait...hold on...it does well?

no. It swells.

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

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

wait uh...

[David:] ...of the published

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

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

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the year died?

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

"He rises and to round,

He the silver chain of sound,

Of many links a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For singing his heaven fills,

love of earth that he instills,

And winging up and up,

Our valley is his cup

And he the which overflows

To lift us him as he goes.

Till lost on his aerial

In light, and the fancy sings."

[Andy:] huh. Wow. That's nice. But I mean...but who is the

I don't know.

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

[David:] but I don't...
I feel like the lark much of the time and uhmm there are other larks for me you know?

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

yeah.

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

right.

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

right.

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

yes.

[Andy:] ...pulling the of us with it. That as the lark 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 a second. Uh but I mean what about the number 7?

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