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hello.

[David:] yeah, is there?

uh...this is he.

[David:] this is David Crowder 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. a few changes around here
and my typical setup is kinda, you know, technology's a right?

[David:] uh...well...we'll have to 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 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 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..
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 that a metaphor or...uh...I mean is it for something or like, or is it...

well...

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

[David:] ...nah. I mean. Yeah.
The...uh...atom, it's not really...I mean a symbol.
You see and you think atom.
It shows moving in elliptical 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 that's why it was 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 of worship are inadequate,
much like the atom depiction. But this is we have you know?
It us carry the idea.

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

uhmm. I don't...

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

we'll have to wait and see on that.

swell.

[David:] it swell.

[Andy:] wait...uh it...wait...hold on...it does

no. It swells.

oh. Right. It swells. Uhmm. Ok. Well.
And so the end starts with this...this piece "the lark ascending."
now what is...what is the lark?
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 too much into any of this you know
It's...I mean the lark was written...
it was a written by Vaughn Williams who died in 1958,
and uh, the work opens with this set of sustained chords and then (coughs) sorry.
me. And uhmm.
Anyway and so then the violin enters as the and it...
it with this series of ascending and repeated intervals and this...
these nimble then arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually inspiration in a work by the English poet George Meredith
who in 1909 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 like this it says uh...

"He rises and to round,

He drops the chain of sound,

Of links without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For till his heaven fills,

'Tis love of earth he instills,

And winging up and up,

Our valley is his cup

And he the which overflows

To us with him as he goes.

lost 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 i've got the page. Uhmm.
The script you gave me something different. It says, "you are."

yeah 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 point that art this...

right.

[Andy:] ...you know the whole, it rises on wing from earth to 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 pulls at my feet.

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

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

[Andy:] wait. on. What?

[David:] we're walking 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 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 that the sky has been us all along.
We have walking into 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 and we rise and we rise and we rise...