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hello.

[David:] yeah, is Andy

uh...this is he.

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

oh. Yeah. Great. Um sorry...I didn't 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 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 admit I...I really don't know much about...
you know...you... You...or the band...
but I've got some 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..
interesting. You know the...the...

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole title thing.

yeah.

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

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all 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 don't know...is that...it's like 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 and you think atom.
It shows electrons in elliptical paths around a nucleus 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 the elements of worship are inadequate,
like the atom depiction. But this is what we have you know?
It helps us the idea.

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

uhmm. I don't...

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

[David:] have to wait 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 with this...this piece "the lark ascending."
now what is...what is the lark?
Is that...is that also a for something?

[David:] uhmm. I gue...I mean I guess. I just...I think...
I don't think you should read too much into any of you know
It's...I mean the lark was written...
it was a piece written by Vaughn Williams who in 1958,
and uh, the work opens with this set of sustained chords and then (coughs) sorry.
me. And uhmm.
Anyway and so then the enters as the lark and it...
it with this series of ascending and repeated intervals and this...
nimble 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...

[Andy:] 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 like this it says uh...

"He rises and to round,

He drops the silver of sound,

Of many without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For till his heaven fills,

love of earth that he instills,

And winging up and up,

Our is his golden cup

And he the wine which

To us with him as he goes.

lost on his aerial rings

In light, and the fancy sings."

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

[David:] I know.

sorry. I think i've got the wrong page. Uhmm.
The script you gave me says different. It says, "you are."

yeah but I don't...
I don't feel like the lark 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 I have you're...

right.

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

right.

[Andy:] ...you know the whole, it rises on wing earth 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 says so here.

yeah. Uhmm. But the ground pulls at my feet.

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

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

[Andy:] wait. Hold on.

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