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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 to get things set up here.

no problem.

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

uh...well...we'll have to wait and see I guess.

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

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta admit I...I don't know much about...
you know...you... You...or the band...
but got some 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..
interesting. You know the...the...

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole double thing.

yeah.

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

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 with the cover...
is a metaphor or...uh...I mean is it metaphorical for something or like, or is it...

well...

[Andy:] ...just or...

...nah. Well I mean. Yeah.
The...uh...atom, it's not really...I mean 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 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 what we you know?
It helps us 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 Like what's...going on there?

uhmm. I don't...

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

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

[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 calm set of sustained and then (coughs) sorry.
me. And uhmm.
Anyway and so the violin enters as the lark and it...
it starts with this series of ascending and intervals and this...
these nimble then arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found inspiration in a 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 work

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

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

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the year they

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

"He rises and to round,

He drops the chain of sound,

Of many links a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For till 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 rings

In light, and then the sings."

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

I don't know.

[Andy:] sorry. I i've 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 there are other larks for me you know?

wait 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 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 says so 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 ever 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 ground and we're in between.
is where we live.
And sometimes some of us take and when they do,
when their feet the ground, even for a second,
pull the rest of us with them.
And we rise, and when we rise,
and when we that the sky has been around us all along.
We have walking into it. It has been this constant collision.
and depravity.
And we 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 rise
and we rise and we and we rise and we rise...