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hello.

[David:] yeah, is Andy

uh...this is he.

[David:] this is Crowder calling for the interview 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. Made a few changes here
and my typical setup is kinda, you know, technology's a 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 are...you know a little scattered here...
uh...you'll have to me.

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta admit I...I really 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 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 on the cover that's pretty

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all that 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 that a metaphor or...uh...I mean is it metaphorical for or like, or is it...

well...

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

...nah. Well 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 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 sure I see the connection. But...

[David:] ...well...and what we mean to say is that the 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 space? Like what's...going on

uhmm. I don't...

[Andy:] ok. Uhmm. So you know I hear there's this really 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 well?

no. It swells.

oh. Right. It swells. Uhmm. Ok. Well.
And so the end starts with this...this piece called "the 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 think you should read too much into any of this you know
It's...I mean the lark was written...
it was a piece written by Vaughn 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...
these nimble then arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found inspiration in a work by the poet George Meredith
who died in 1909 and the included a portion of Meredith's poem on the flyleaf...

wait uh...

[David:] ...of the published

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

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

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the they died?

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

"He and begins to round,

He drops the chain of sound,

Of many links a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For singing till his fills,

love of earth that he instills,

And winging up and up,

Our is his golden cup

And he the wine which

To lift us him as he goes.

Till on his aerial rings

In light, and then the 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 the lark much of the time and uhmm 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 point that art this...

right.

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

yes.

[Andy:] ...pulling the rest of us with it. 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 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?

wait. Hold on. What?

[David:] we're walking around in it. 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 wing and they do,
when feet leave the ground, even for a second,
pull 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 have been walking into it. It has been constant collision.
and depravity.
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 rise and we
and we rise and we rise and we and we rise...