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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?

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 changes around
and my setup 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 scattered here...
uh...you'll have to me.

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta admit I...I really don't 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:] uhmm lets see...uh...and the atom on the cover pretty

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all that great in 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 that a metaphor or...uh...I 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 moving in 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 sure I see the connection. But...

...well...and what we mean 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 with these little songs between the real...you know, the real songs?
Like are significant? Uhmm...is there like a theme 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?

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 this...this piece called "the lark ascending."
Uhmm now what is...what is the
Is that...is also a metaphor for something?

[David:] uhmm. I gue...I mean I guess. I just...I 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 piece written by Vaughn Williams who 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 this series of ascending and repeated intervals and this...
these nimble then arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found 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...

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 like it says uh...

"He rises and to round,

He drops the chain of sound,

Of many without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For singing till his fills,

'Tis love of that he instills,

And ever up and up,

Our valley is his cup

And he the wine overflows

To lift us 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 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 much of the time and uhmm there are other larks for me you know?

[Andy:] wait a second. Ok. So 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 on wing from earth to fill the heavens...

yes.

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

right. I'm unsure.

[Andy:] but. Uh. on. I mean...it...it says 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. Hold on.

we're walking around in it. We're 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 feet leave the ground, even for a second,
they pull the of us with them.
And we rise, and when we rise,
and we notice that 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 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 and we rise...