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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?

[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 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 little here...
uh...you'll to forgive me.

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta admit I...I really 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 your new CD is a collision, or...um...3 + 4 = 7 that's..
that's interesting. You the...the...

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole double thing.

yeah.

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

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all great in science 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 know...is that...it's like 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, not really...I mean 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 works. Or...or looks even, for that matter...

ok.

[David:] ...and so....and so that's why it was 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 depiction. But this is what we have you know?
It us carry 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 theme of the
Or are they creating space? Like what's...going on

uhmm. I don't...

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

[David:] we'll have to 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 that a metaphor for something?

[David:] uhmm. I gue...I I guess. I just...I don't think...
I don't think you should read too into any of this you know
It's...I mean the ascending was written...
it was a piece written by Vaughn who died in 1958,
and uh, the work opens with this calm set of chords and then (coughs) sorry.
me. And uhmm.
Anyway and so the violin enters as the lark and it...
it starts with series of ascending and repeated intervals and this...
these then elongated arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found inspiration in a work by the English poet Meredith
who died in and the composer 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 this it uh...

"He and begins to round,

He drops the chain of sound,

Of many links a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For singing his heaven fills,

'Tis of earth that he instills,

And ever up and up,

Our valley is his cup

And he the wine which

To us with him as he goes.

Till 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 script you gave me 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 other 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 point art does this...

right.

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

yes.

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

right. I'm unsure.

[Andy:] but. Uh. on. I mean...it...it says so right here.

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

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

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

[Andy:] wait. Hold on.

[David:] walking around in it. We're in the sky.
There is sky and is ground and we're somewhere in between.
That is we live.
And sometimes of us take wing and when 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 into it. It has this constant collision.
and depravity.
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 and we and we rise and we rise...