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hello.

[David:] yeah, is Andy

uh...this is he.

[David:] this is David Crowder calling for the interview that was scheduled

[Andy:] oh. Yeah. Great. Um sorry...I didn't you so soon.
Let me...give me a to get things set up here.

no problem.

[Andy:] yeah. Made a few changes around
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 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 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:] uhmm see...uh...and the atom on the cover that's pretty

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all that great in 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 with the cover...
is that a metaphor or...uh...I 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 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 works. Or...or looks 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 we mean to say is that the elements of worship are inadequate,
much like the atom depiction. But this is what we 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 songs?
Like are they significant? Uhmm...is there like a 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 really spectacular ending to...
to the record is that

[David:] have to wait 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 with this...this piece called "the lark ascending."
Uhmm now what is...what is the
Is that...is that also a for something?

[David:] uhmm. I gue...I I guess. I just...I don't think...
I don't think you should read too much into any of this you
It's...I the lark ascending was written...
it was a piece written by Vaughn Williams who in 1958,
and uh, the opens with this calm 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...
nimble then elongated arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found inspiration in a work by the English poet Meredith
who died in 1909 and the composer 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 year died?

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

"He rises and to round,

He drops the silver of sound,

Of links without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For singing till his fills,

'Tis of earth that he instills,

And winging up and up,

Our is his golden 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 i've got the wrong 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?

[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 earth to the heavens...

yes.

[Andy:] ...pulling the rest of us 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 just a second. Uh but I mean what about the 7?

[David:] did you ever notice 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 there is ground and we're in between.
That is we live.
And sometimes some of us wing and when they do,
when their feet leave the ground, 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 been walking into it. It has this constant 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...