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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. a few changes around here
and my typical setup is kinda, you know, a killer right?

[David:] uh...well...we'll to wait 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 to forgive me.

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta I...I really don't 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 your new CD is a collision, or...um...3 + 4 = 7 that's..
interesting. You know the...the...

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole title thing.

yeah.

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

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was all that 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 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...

[David:] ...nah. 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 elliptical paths 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 elements of are inadequate,
like the atom 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?
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 I hear there's this really spectacular ending to...
to the record is that

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 also a metaphor for something?

[David:] uhmm. I gue...I 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 ascending 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 then the violin as the lark and it...
it starts with this series of ascending and repeated and this...
nimble then elongated arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found in a work by the English poet George Meredith
who died in 1909 and the composer included a portion of Meredith's 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 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 his heaven fills,

'Tis love of earth he instills,

And ever up and up,

Our is his golden cup

And he the wine overflows

To us with him as he goes.

lost on his aerial rings

In light, and the fancy sings."

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

I don't know.

[Andy:] sorry. I think got the wrong page. Uhmm.
The script you gave me says different. It says, "you are."

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

[Andy:] wait. on. What?

[David:] 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 some of us take wing and when they do,
their feet leave the ground, even for a second,
they the rest of us with them.
And we rise, and when we rise,
and when we notice the sky has been around us all along.
We have been walking into it. It has been this collision.
and depravity.
And we rise and we rise and we rise and we and we rise
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...