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hello.

[David:] yeah, is there?

uh...this is he.

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

oh. Yeah. Great. Um sorry...I didn't expect you so soon.
Let me...give me a second to get set up here.

no problem.

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

[David:] uh...well...we'll to wait 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 have to 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 your new CD is a collision, or...um...3 + 4 = 7 that's..
interesting. You know the...the...

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole double thing.

yeah.

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

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all that 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 with the cover...
is a metaphor 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 shows electrons moving in elliptical paths around a and all...we know...

mmhmm.

[David:] ...that's...that's not how an atom works. Or...or even, for that 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 mean to say is that the elements of are inadequate,
much like the atom depiction. But this is we have you know?
It us carry the idea.

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

uhmm. I don't...

[Andy:] ok. Uhmm. So you know I hear this really spectacular ending to...
to the is that true?

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

swell.

[David:] it swell.

[Andy:] wait...uh it...wait...hold on...it does

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 ascending was written...
it was a written by Vaughn Williams who died in 1958,
and uh, the work with 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 of ascending and repeated intervals and this...
nimble then elongated arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found inspiration in a work by the English George Meredith
who died in and the composer 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 they died?

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

"He rises and to round,

He the silver chain of sound,

Of many links a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For till his heaven fills,

'Tis love of earth he instills,

And ever up and up,

Our valley is his cup

And he the wine which

To us with him as he goes.

Till lost on his aerial

In light, and the fancy sings."

[Andy:] huh. Wow. nice. But I mean...but who is the lark?

I don't know.

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

[David:] but I don't...
I don't feel like the lark much of the time and 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 script I you're...

right.

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

right.

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

yes.

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

right. I'm unsure.

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

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

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

did you ever notice that the sky is all the way to the ground?

[Andy:] wait. on. What?

[David:] we're walking around in it. in the sky.
There is sky and is ground and we're somewhere in between.
is where we live.
And sometimes some of us take wing and they do,
when their feet the ground, even for a second,
they 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 been walking into it. It has been this constant collision.
and depravity.
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
and we rise and we rise and we and we rise...