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hello.

[David:] yeah, is Andy

uh...this is he.

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

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

no problem.

[Andy:] yeah. a few changes 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 admit I...I really don't know about...
you know...you... You...or the band...
but I've got some friends that are big 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:] 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 great in 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 that a metaphor or...uh...I mean is it metaphorical for 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 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 that's why it was for the cover, you know...

right. Uhmm. Ok. Yeah. I'm not really sure I see the connection. But...

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

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

uhmm. I don't...

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

we'll 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."
Uhmm now is...what is the lark?
Is that...is that a metaphor for something?

uhmm. I gue...I mean I guess. I just...I don't think...
I don't think you read too much into any of this you know
It's...I the lark ascending was written...
it was a piece written by Vaughn who died in 1958,
and uh, the opens with this calm set of sustained chords and then (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 and the composer included a portion of Meredith's poem on the flyleaf...

[Andy:] uh...

...of the published work

....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 ever up and up,

Our valley is his cup

And he the wine overflows

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.

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

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

wait a second. Ok. So correct me if I'm wrong but uhmm...

yeah.

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

right.

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

right.

[Andy:] ...you the whole, it rises on wing from 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 so right here.

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

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

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

[Andy:] wait. on. What?

we're walking around in it. We're in the sky.
There is sky and there is and we're somewhere in between.
That is we live.
And sometimes some of us take wing and they do,
when their leave the ground, even for a second,
they pull the rest of us them.
And we rise, and when 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 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 rise and we and we rise...